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MEMORIAL  ADDRESSES 


LIFE  AND  CHARACTER 


LEWIS  Y.  BOGY, 


(A  SENATOR  FROM  MISSOURI,) 


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ANNOUNCEMENT. 


Mr.  COCKKELL.  Mr.  President,  according  to  notice  previ 
ously  given,  it  now  becomes  my  sad  duty  formally  to  announce  to 
the  Senate  the  death  of  my  late  colleague,  Hon.  LEWIS  VITAL 
BOGY,  and  to  ask  of  the  Senate  the  present  consideration  of  the 
following  resolutions  as  a  mark  of  respect  to  his  memory : 

Resolved,  That  the  Senate  has  received  with  profound  sorrow  the  announcement 
of  the  death  of  Hon.  LEWIS  V.  BOGY,  late  a  Senator  of  the  United  States  from  the 
State  of  Missouri. 

Resolved,  That,  as  a  mark  of  respect  to  the  memory  of  Hon.  LEWIS  V.  BOGY,  the 
business  of  the  Senate  be  now  suspended,  that  his  former  associates  may  pay  proper 
tribute  to  his  public  and  private  virtues. 

Resolved,  That,  as  a  further  mark  of  respect  for  the  memory  of  the  deceased,  the 
members  of  the  Senate  will  wear  the  usual  badge  of  mourning  for  thirty  days. 

Ordered,  That  the  Secretary  communicate  these  resolutions  to  the  House  of  Rep 
resentatives. 

The  resolutions  were  unanimously  agreed  to. 


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DEATH  OF  LEWIS  V.  BOGY. 


Address  of  Mr.  COCKRELL,  of  Missouri. 

Mr.  PRESIDENT  :  At  eleven  o'clock  in  the  forenoon  of  September 
20,  1877,  at  his  family  residence,  in  the  city  of  Saint  Louis,  sur 
rounded  by  his  loving,  weeping  family  and  devoted,  grief-stricken 
friends,  Hon.  LEWIS  VITAL  BOGY,  in  the  sixty-fifth  year  of  his 
age,  departed  this  life,  calmly,  painlessly,  and  in  the  possession  of 
all  his  faculties,  thus  yielding  another  victory  to  death,  the  con 
quering  hero  of  the  human  family. 

Again  is  manifested  infallible  proof  of  the  truth  of  the  divinely 
inspired  words,  "It  is  appointed  unto  men  once  to  die." 

LEWIS  VITAL  BOGY  was  born  on  the  9th  day  of  April,  in  the 
year  1813,  in  Sainte  Genevieve,  now  in  Sainte  Gencvieve  County, 
Missouri,  and  was  a  descendant  of  the  early  French  pioneers  who 
came  to  that  region  of  country  when  it  belonged  to  France. 

His  father,  Joseph  Bogy,  was  born  in  Kaskaskia,  Illinois,  and 
removed  to  the  then  Missouri  Territory  in  1805,  and  settled  in 
Sainte  Geuevieve,  then  an  important  town,  and  married  Marie 
Beauvais,  the  daughter  of  Vital  Beauvais,  and  mother  of  LEWIS 
VITAL  BOGY. 


ADDRESS   OF   MR.   COCKRELL   ON   THE 


Mr.  Joseph  Bogy  was  private  secretary  to  Governor  Morales 
under  the  Spanish  dominion  over  that  country,  and  when  Missouri 
was  organized  as  a  Territory  became  a  member  of  the  territorial 
Legislature,  and  after  Missouri  was  admitted  as  a  State  in  the 
Union  became  a  member  of  the  State  Legislature  and  filled  many 
other  positions  of  trust  and  confidence. 

In  the  early  youth  of  LEWIS  V.  BOGY  the  French  was  the  lan 
guage  spoken  by  all  the  inhabitants  of  his  town,  and  educational 
advantages  were  very  limited.  Very  few  persons  of  this  day,  born 
and  reared  under  our  present  well-organized  and  widely-spread 
system  of  public  schools,  academies,  colleges  and  universities  every 
where  accessible,  can  realize  or  appreciate  the  many  obstacles  and 
inconveniences  which  then  beset  the  pathway  and  frustrated  the 
efforts  of  the  youth  to  obtain  an  education.  Under  innumerable 
difficulties  and  disadvantages  LEWIS  V.  BOGY  prosecuted  his  edu 
cation  in  such  schools  as  were  then  accessible  in  that  new  country, 
manifesting  that  indomitable  will  and  perseverance  which  yield  to 
no  obstacles  however  formidable.  About  1822  he  attended  a  school 
in  his  native  town  taught  by  John  D.  Grafton,  from  Connecticut. 
He  was  then  sent  to  a  Catholic  school  in  Perryville,  now  in  Perry 
County,  Missouri,  taught  by  a  Swiss,  where  he  remained  until 
attacked  by  a  "white  swelling"  which  confined  him  to  his  bed  for 
some  eighteen  months.  He  was  skillfully  treated  by  Dr.  Lewis  F. 
Linn,  afterward  United  States  Senator  from  Missouri,  who  died  on 
October  31,  1843,  while  Senator.  Dr.  Linn  was  a  Senator  in  the 
same  line  or  class  in  which  Mr.  BOGY  afterward  became  a  Senator. 

During  this  confinement  he  read  constantly,  and  thus  made  rapid 
progress.  He  was  afterward  a  clerk  in  a  store  at  a  salary  of  $200 
per  year,  under  a  contract  to  take  out  in  trade  one-half  of  that 
salary.  By  frugality  in  his  habits  and  economy  in  expenditure  he 


LIFE   AND   CHAEACTER   OF   LEWIS   V.    BOGY. 

managed  to  purchase  books  and  study  elementary  law,  and  begin 
the  study  of  Latin.  On  January  16,  1832,  a  young  man,  with 
limited  education  and  means,  he  left  his  home  under  charge  of  Mr. 
William  Shannon,  an  old  friend  of  his  father,  to  go  to  Kaskaskia, 
Illinois,  to  read  law  in  the  office  of  the  late  Judge  Nathaniel  Pope, 
judge  of  the  United  States  district  court. 

At  or  prior  to  this  time  he  had  formed  the  determination  to  con 
tinue  the  study  of  law  and  to  return  to  his  native  State  to  practice 
and  to  qualify  himself  to  become  United  States  Senator  from  his 
native  State,  and  to  work  for  this  position  until  he  became  sixty 
years  old.  This  determination  was  communicated  to  his  mother  in 
a  letter  dated  January  16,  1832.  He  lived  to  attain  the  goal  of 
his  laudable  ambition  a  few  months  before  the  end  of  his  sixtieth 
year.  He  studied  law  under  Judge  Pope  till  May,  1832.  He 
then  volunteered  as  a  private  soldier  in  the  war  with  the  Indians, 
known  as  the  Black  Hawk  war,  and  participated  in  two  hotly  con 
tested  engagements.  Having  served  faithfully  and  gallantly  to  the 
close  of  that  war,  he  returned  to  Kaskaskia  and  continued  his 
study  of  law.  In  1833  he  became  a  student  in  the  law  school  at 
Lexington,  Kentucky,  from  which  he  graduated  in  1835,  with  the 
highest  encomiums,  having  devoted  himself  to  his  studies  with  the 
most  assiduous  attention. 

On  April  1,  1835,  he  located  in  Saint  Louis  and  opened  a  law 
office  and  began  his  professional  career. 

By  diligent  and  close  attention  to  business,  and  earnest  applica 
tion  to  study,  he  soon  won  distinction  and  eminence  in  his  profes 
sion  and  secured  a  lucrative  practice. 

In  1840  he  was  elected  a  member  of  the  General  Assembly  of 
the  State  of  Missouri,  and,  although  among  the  youngest  members, 
if  not  the  youngest,  he  was  an  efficient  and  useful  member  and 


10  ADDRESS   OF   MR.   COCKRELL,   ON   THE 

served  with  distinction.  In  1849,  having  acquired  large  means  by 
his  profession,  he  removed  to  his  native  county,  Sainte  Genevieve, 
and  was  the  anti-Benton  democratic  candidate  for  the  Legislature 
and  was  defeated. 

Colonel  Benton,  having  failed  to  secure  his  re-election  to  the 
United  States  Senate  at  the  next  congressional  election  in  1852, 
announced  himself  a  candidate  for  Representative  in  Congress. 
LEWIS  V.  BOGY  was  nominated  as  his  opponent,  and  although 
defeated  acquired  prestige  from  his  contest  with  the  great  Senator, 
and  at  the  succeeding  election  in  1854  was  elected  a  member  of  the 
General  Assembly  from  his  native  county  and  served  with  marked 
ability  and  distinction.  In  1863,  having  returned  to  Saint  Louis, 
he  was  the  democratic  candidate  for  Congress  against  the  late  Senator 
Francis  P.  Blair,  jr.,  and  Samuel  Knox,  and  was  defeated. 

In  1867  he  was  appointed  by  the  late  President  Andrew  Johnson 
Commissioner  of  Indian  Affairs,  and  discharged  the  duties  with  signal 
ability  and  fidelity  for  about  six  months,  when,  not  being  confirmed 
by  the  Senate,  he  retired  from  the  office. 

In  1873  he  became  a  candidate  for  the  United  States  Senate,  and 
having  received  the  caucus  nomination  by  a  vote  of  64  to  57  for 
the  late  distinguished  Senator,  General  Frank  P.  Blair,  was  elected 
over  Hon.  John  B.  Henderson,  late  United  States  Senator,  by  a 
majority  of  59  votes,  and  became  the  successor  of  General  Blair  in 
this  body  for  the  term  from  March  4,  1873,  to  March  3,  1879. 
His  career  as  a  Senator  in  this  body  is  familiar  to  most  of  the  present 
Senators. 

Colonel  BOGY  during  his  long  career  occupied  a  very  conspicuous 
position  among  the  public  men  of  his  State,  and  in  addition  to  the 
political  offices  named  occupied  many  important  positions  of  trust 
and  honor.  He  was  president  of  the  Saint  Louis  and  Iron  Mount- 


LIFE  AND  CHARACTER  OF   LEWIS  V.   BOGY.  11 

ain  Railroad,  president  of  the  Exchange  Bank  of  Saint  Louis, 
commissioner  of  public  schools,  member  of  the  city  council  of  Saint 
Louis,  and  president  of  the  city  council,  and,  as  such,  acting  mayor 
in  the  absence  of  the  mayor. 

The  survivors  of  his  family  are  his  wife,  Mrs.  Pelagie  Pratt 
Bogy,  daughter  of  the  late  General  Bernard  Pratt;  his  son,  Joseph 
Bogy,  and  his  daughter,  Mrs.  Josephine  Noonan. 

The  disease  which  terminated  fatally  first  manifested  itself  in  this 
city  during  the  last  session  of  the  Forty-fourth  Congress,  and  the 
executive  session  of  the  Senate,  called  upon  its  close,  and  was  of  the 
character  of  a  low  malarial  fever.  After  the  adjournment  of  the 
Senate  in  March,  1877,  he  returned  to  his  home  and  continued  to 
grow  worse.  In  August,  1877,  he  visited  Colorado  with  the  hope 
of  relief;  failing,  he  returned  to  Saint  Louis  and  grew  steadily 
weaker  until  he  was  forced  to  confinement  in  bed.  A  few  days 
prior  to  his  death  the  rupture  of  an  abscess  of  the  under  or  posterior 
surface  of  the  liver  occurred,  and  for  a  short  time  he  seemed  to 
grow  better  when  a  marked  change  occurred  indicating  the  rapid 
approach  of  death. 

Father  Tallon,  of  Saint  Laurence  O'Toolc's  church,  administered 
to  him  the  last  sacraments  of  the  Catholic  Church,  of  which  he  was 
an  earnest  member,  and  about  10  o'clock  he  went  to  sleep,  and  at 
11  o'clock,  without  a  sign  of  pain  he  passed  away  as  quietly  and 
calmly  as  if  still  sleeping. 

The  last  sad  rites  were  performed  on  September  22,  1877,  and 
his  body  was  then  interred  in  Calvary  cemetery  to  await  the  resurrec 
tion  morn. 

Mr.  President,  this  is  the  third  time  in  the  history  of  Missouri 
that  her  Senator  during  his  term  of  office  has  died,  and  these  three 
deaths  have  all  occurred  in  the  same  line  or  class  of  Senators,  which 


12  ADDRESS   OF   MR.   COCKRELL   ON   THE 

began  with  Senator  Barton.  Mr.  Alexander  Buckner,  serving  in 
the  term  beginning  March  4,  1831,  and  ending  March  3,  1837, 
died  in  the  year  1833,  during  the  recess,  and  was  succeeded  by  Dr. 
Lewis  F.  Linn,  who  served  out  Mr.  Buckner's  term,  and  was  his 
own  successor  by  two  re-elections,  for  the  terms  ending  respectively 
March  3,  1843,  and  March  3, 1849,  but  died  in  the  recess,  on  Oc 
tober  31, 1843.  Mr.  BOGY,  in  1873,  became  a  Senator  in  this  same 
class,  and  died  September  20,  1877,  during  the  recess. 

Mr.  BOGY  from  youth  to  death  displayed  an  honorable  ambition, 
a  strong  will,  an  unyielding  perseverance,  and  a  lion-hearted  cour 
age  that  never  failed  in  the  face  of  the  strongest  difficulty.  In  all 
the  relations  of  life  he  was  "  the  born  gentleman,"  courteous,  gener 
ous,  liberal,  and  warm-hearted. 

As  a  son  he  was  dutiful,  affectionate,  and  considerate.  As  husband 
and  father  he  was  kind,  loving,  patient,  and  tender,  and  doted  with 
strong  affection  upon  his  wife  and  children. 

It  is  in  these  sacred  relations  of  life  that  the  true  character  of 
man  is  exemplified,  and  herein  the  late  Senator  BOGY  stood  pre 
eminent,  and  happily  realized  the  truth  of  the  beautiful  lines : 

Domestic  happiness,  thou  only  bliss 
Of  Taradise  that  has  survived  the  fall ! 
Thou  art  the  muse  of  virtue ;  in  thine  arms 
She  smiles,  appearing  as  in  truth  she  is 
Heaven-born  and  destined  to  the  skies  again. 

As  a  citizen  he  was  patriotic  and  devoted  to  the  Constitution  and 
form  of  Government,  and  labored  earnestly  and  zealously  for  the 
development  of  the  material  interests  of  his  own  great  and  rapidly 
growing  city  and  State  and  of  our  whole  country. 

As  a  public  official  he  recognized  that  he  was  the  agent  and  ser 
vant  of  the  people,  and  was  laborious,  diligent,  and  faithful  in  the 
discharge  of  every  trust  confided  to  him  and  of  every  obligation 
imposed  upon  him. 


LIFE  AND  CHARACTER  OF  LEWIS  V.  BOGY.        13 

When  his  eventful  career  drew  to  its  inevitable  close  and  the 
labors  of  his  life  on  earth  were  ended  by  the  separation  of  soul  and 
body  in  temporal  death,  the  people  of  his  native  State  and  of  the 
whole  country  justly  felt  and  uttered  the  sentiment,  "  Well  done, 
thou  good  and  faithful  servant." 

Mr.  President,  I  have  often  heard  it  stated  upon  this  floor  that 
the  Senate  of  the  United  States  is  a  continuing  body,  perpetual  in 
existence,  without  end  of  days  in  law.  This  may  be  true  as  a  legal 
proposition  and  may  tend  to  divert  our  attention  from  a  stern  fact 
and  an  inexorable  event,  the  uncertainty  of  life  and  the  certainty  of 
death. 

It  is  therefore  proper  that  we  occasionally  turn  from  the  thrilling 
and  absorbing  themes  discussed  in  this  body  to  contemplate  the  end 
of  all  the  living  and  to  realize  that — 

Life  is  ever  a  vapor  that  appearcth  for  a  little  time  and  then  vanishcth  away, 

and  that — 

Man  that  is  born  of  a  woman  is  of  few  days  and  full  of  trouble.  He  cometh  forth 
like  a  flower  and  is  cut  down. 

During  my  short  term  of  service  here,  now  less  than  three  years, 
the  Senate  has  been  called  upon  to  suspend  its  business  that  we 
might  pay  proper  tribute  to  the  public  and  private  virtues  of  the 
late  Vice-President  Henry  Wilson,  and  of  the  late  President  and 
United  States  Senator  from  Tennessee,  Andrew  Johnson,  and  of  the 
late  Senator  from  Connecticut,  Orris  S.  Ferry,  and  of  the  late  Sen 
ator  from  West  Virginia,  Allen  T.  Caperton,  and  we  now  pay  the 
same  tribute  to  my  late  colleague,  LEWIS  V.  BOGY,  and  to-morrow 
we  will  pay  the  same  tribute  to  the  late  Senator  from  Indiana, 
Oliver  P.  Morton.  We  are  thus  solemnly  warned  of  the  truth  of 
the  divine  utterance : 

Set  thine  house  in  order :  for  thou  shalt  die,  and  not  live. 


14  ADDRESS  OF   MR.   MAXEY  ON  THE 

It  is  the  dictate  of  both  religion  and  philosophy  that  we  cherish 
the  memories  of  departed  brother  Senators  now  quietly  sleeping  in 
the  sepulcher,  that  universal  and  venerable  teacher  which  declares 
to  us  to-day  the  same  truths  which  it  has  for  fifty-eight  centuries 
past  declared  in  all  climes  and  in  all  tongues  of  the  earth,  to  all 
classes  of  people,  to  the  king  upon  his  throne,  to  the  peasant  in  his 
hut,  to  the  wise  and  to  the  ignorant: 

Our  lives  are  rivers  gliding  free 
To  that  unfathomed  boundless  sea, 
The  silent  grave. 

The  lessons  which  the  sepulcher  imparts  impress  us  with  the  mo 
mentous  interests  which  cluster  around  life,  death,  and  eternity : 

For  none  of  us  liveth  to  himself,  and  no  man  dieth  to  himself. 

The  "  Man  of  Calvary  "  has  lighted  the  gloom  of  the  sepulcher 
with  the  glories  of  his  triumph.  We  can  exclaim : 

O,  death,  where  is  thy  sting? 
O,  grave,  where  is  thy  victory? 


Address  of  Mr.  MAXEY,  of  Texas. 

Mr.  PRESIDENT:  LEWIS  Y.  BOGY  was  born  April  9,  1813,  in 
the  Territory  (now  State)  of  Missouri,  in  the  County  of  Sainte 
Genevieve.  He  acquired  the  rudiments  of  an  English  education 
in  the  schools  of  the  neighborhood,  but  in  the  main  was  educated 
by  his  own  exertions  without  an  instructor. 

He  began  the  study  of  law  in  1832  with  Judge  Pope,  of  Kas- 
kaskia,  Illinois,  but  suspended  his  studies  to  volunteer  in  the  Black 
Hawk  war,  and  participated  in  two  engagements  and  was  present 
at  the  capture  of  Black  Hawk.  At  the  close  of  the  war  he  resumed 
his  studies  under  Judge  Pope,  and  in  1835  completed  them  at 
Transylvania  University,  settled  in  Saint  Louis,  and  began  the 


LIFE   AND   CHARACTER   OF   LEWIS   V.    BOGY.  15 

practice  of  law  at  the  age  of  twenty-two  years,  without  aid  from 
fortune  or  family  influence. 

With  a  robust  constitution,  temperate  habits,  a  will  to  succeed, 
energy,  and  strict  integrity,  he  laid  the  foundation  of  fortune  and 
usefulness  and  rapidly  rose  in  his  profession.  He  served  for  a  time 
in  the  Legislature  with  credit,  and  occupied  other  positions  of  prom 
inence,  among  them  commissioner  of  common  schools,  in  his  native 
State.  He  was  for  a  time  president  of  the  city  council  of  Saint 
Louis.  His  most  important  service  to  the  State,  and  especially  to 
Saint  Louis,  was  in  effectively  directing  the  public  mind  to  the  vast 
importance  of  developing  the  wonderful  deposits  of  iron  ore  in  the 
mountains  south  of  Saint  Louis,  known  as  Pilot  Knob  and  Iron 
Mountain. 

This  he  began  in  1847,  and  soon  drew  the  attention  of  sagacious 
capitalists  to  this  inexhaustible  and  rich  ore.  These  beds  were 
remote  from  navigation,  and  there  were  then  no  railroads  in  that 
direction.  Through  his  indefatigable  exertions  companies  were 
formed  and  a  railroad  projected  and  completed  from  Saint  Louis  to 
the  iron  deposits,  giving  a  new  impetus  to  its  enterprise  and  greatly 
increasing  the  city  in  wealth  and  population.  The  Saint  Louis  and 
Iron  Mountain  Railroad  has  within  the  last  few  years  been  pushed 
into  Texas,  and  by  it  and  connecting  railroads  Saint  Louis  now  has 
all-rail  connection  with  the  Gulf  of  Mexico  at  Galveston. 

He  builded  better  than  he  knew. 

Mr.  BOGY  was  one  of  the  leading  spirits  in  projecting  and  estab 
lishing  the  great  iron  founderics  near  Saint  Louis,  which  have  added 
so  greatly  to  the  prosperity  of  the  city.  He  lent  his  untiring  energy 
and  influence  to  other  enterprises  of  public  advantage.  He  was  a 
public-spirited  man ;  one  of  the  men  to  whom  all  look  to  head  great 
enterprises. 


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He  was  a  splendid  type  of  the  rugged  old  men  of  the  West,  fast 
passing  away,  who  carved  thriving  States  out  of  a  wilderness. 
Born  in  the  Territory  of  Missouri  soon  after  it  passed  from  the 
dominion  of  Spain  to  that  of  France,  and  then  under  the  jurisdic 
tion  of  the  United  States,  he  lived  to  see  the  sparsely  populated 
Territory  of  his  birth  enter  the  Union  as  a  State  under  a  political 
excitement  never  before  reached  in  this  country.  He  lived  to  see 
that  excitement  disappear,  and  other  and  graver  diiferences  appear 
and  disappear,  while  his  native  State  advanced  in  wealth  and  polit 
ical  influence  till  it  had  reached,  in  his  day,  the  very  front  rank  of 
States. 

Beginning  his  professional  life  in  Saint  Louis  just  when  it  was 
emerging  from  a  French  trading-post  into  a  prosperous  town,  he 
lived  to  see  it  among  the  leading  commercial  cities  of  the  Union, 
with  the  great  Mississippi  at  its  base,  spanned  by  the  most  splendid 
bridge  in  the  world. 

Of  the  enterprise,  progress,  and  prosperity  of  Missouri  and  her 
great  metropolis,  Mr.  BOGY  could  well  have  exclaimed,  "All  of 
which  I  saw,  and  a  great  part  of  which  I  was." 

Mr.  BOGY  was  appointed  Commissioner  of  Indian  Affairs  in  the 
year  1867,  and  conducted  the  complicated  business  of  that  impor 
tant  bureau  with  conspicuous  intelligence  and  fidelity.  I  doubt  if 
any  man  was  ever  at  the  head  of  that  bureau  who  so  thoroughly 
as  he  understood  Indian  affairs.  This  was  the  only  office  he  ever 
held  under  the  Federal  Government. 

He  was  elected  to  the  Senate  by  the  Legislature  of  Missouri,  and 
took  his  seat  in  this  body  March  4,  1873. 

As  a  Senator  he  was  honest,  industrious,  careful  in  arriving  at 
his  conclusions,  and  alive  to  every  measure  of  national  importance 
while  never  forgetting  that  he  was  specially  intrusted  with  what 


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specially  concerned  Missouri.  He  frequently  took  part  in  debate, 
was  a  ready  and  fluent  speaker,  reasoned  well,  and  showed  without 
effort  that  he  had  read  and  thought  deeply.  While  unswerving  in 
his  party  allegiance  he  was  always  courteous  in  debate  as  well  as  in 
social  intercourse,  and  was  a  popular  man  in  the  Senate. 

His  last  important  work  as  a  Senator  was  as  a  member  of  the 
monetary  commission,  under  the  joint  resolution  of  August  15, 
1876,  and  upon  this  duty  he  entered  with  all  the  zeal  of  his  earnest 
nature.  The  report  of  the  commission  will  show  how  well  and 
faithfully  this  great  and  important  work  was  performed. 

Mr.  BOGY'S  health  began  to  fail  during  the  intensely  hot  weeks 
closing  the  first  session  of  the  Forty-fourth  Congress,  and  it  was 
never  restored,  although  for  months  afterward  he  continued  his 
usual  labors ;  but  finally  he  was  stricken  down,  and  after  a  linger 
ing  illness  he  died  at  his  residence  in  Saint  Louis  at  eleven  o'clock 
a.  m.,  September  20,  1877,  in  the  sixty-fifth  year  of  his  age.  All 
that  the  tenderest  love  of  a  devoted  family  and  the  affection  of  life 
long  friends  could  do  was  done  to  make  smooth  the  rugged  path-way. 
No  man  ever  died  in  Saint  Louis  whose  memory  received  more  or 
higher  marks  of  affectionate  esteem  than  LEWIS  VITAL  BOGY. 

The  resolutions  of  the  large  and  highly  respectable  bar  of  Saint 
Louis,  of  which  he  was  so  distinguished  a  member,  which  I  place 
before  the  Senate,  are  as  follows : 

Resolved,  That  we,  the  members  of  the  bar  of  Saint  Louis,  bear  witness  that 
LEWIS  V.  BOGY,  during  his  long  career  in  the  profession,  was  distinguished  by  a 
high  order  of  ability  and  the  deportment  of  a  true  gentleman.  It  has  been  truth 
fully  said  of  him  that  he  was  a  "born  gentleman ;"  that  he  possessed  the  virtues  of 
a  Christian  all  will  confess  who  knew  him;  he  was  devoted  and  faithful  to  every 
duty  or  trust  in  public  or  private  life.  Of  the  kindest  disposition,  he  was  also  the 
purest  and  best  of  men  in  his  relations  to  his  family  and  friends. 

Resolved,  That  in  expressing  our  appreciation  of  his  career  in  public  life  we  but 
record  the  truth  of  history  when  we  affirm  that  he  was  always  earnest  and  consci 
entious,  true  to  the  interests  of  the  people  of  the  entire  country,  a  firm  and  steadfast 
friend  to  the  people  of  the  West,  and  labored  with  all  his  zeal  and  energy  to  build 
up  the  material  prosperity  of  the  State  and  the  constituency  he  represented. 


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In  addition  to  the  respect  shown  by  the  members  of  the  bar,  who 
attended  his  funeral  in  a  body,  and  by  the  vast  concourse  of  citizens 
who  followed  his  remains  to  their  last  resting-place,  many  business 
and  social  organizations  passed  resolutions  of  respect  as  a  tribute  to 
the  memory  of  Mr.  BOGY,  not  only  in  Saint  Louis,  but  all  over 
the  State,  and  the  press,  irrespective  of  party,  rendered  merited 
tribute  to  the  memory  of  the  dead  Senator. 

The  States  of  Missouri  and  Texas  had  so  many  interests  in  com 
mon  that  soon  after  I  entered  the  Senate  at  the  executive  session 
in  March,  1875,  I  was  thrown  much  into  companionship  with  Mr. 
BOGY,  and  conferred  with  him  freely,  the  more  so  as  we  were  of 
the  same  political  faith  and  party,  and  there  sprang  up  a  kindly 
relation  which  continued  till  his  death.  He  was  a  man  of 
clear  judgment  and  unusually  quick  perception.  His  mind  was 
well  stored  with  valuable  information.  While,  as  was  well  said 
by  the  Saint  Louis  bar  in  their  resolutions,  "he  was  a  born 
gentleman,"  he  possessed  in  an  eminent  degree  the  rugged  charac 
teristics  of  the  western  pioneer.  Strong  in  his  convictions,  with 
but  little  of  policy,  positive  and  outspoken  in  his  likes  and  dis 
likes,  fearless  in  expression  and  action,  honest  and  true,  and  every 
inch  a  man,  he  was  in  his  family  and  social  relations  gentle  as  a 
woman. 

I  remember  that  he  was  called  from  the  Senate  Chamber  to  the 
bedside  of  his  dying  old  mother,  at  his  home  in  St.  Louis.  Of  this 
visit  and  of  his  great  gratification  in  reaching  her  bedside  before 
she  died,  which  was  but  a  short  time  after  his  arrival,  and  of  the 
pleasure  he  felt  that  she  at  once  recognized  him  although  nearly 
gone,  and  of  her  noble  traits  of  character,  he  spoke  to  me  quite 
freely  after  his  return,  and  I  felt  that  more  than  forty  active  years 
in  the  great  battle  of  life  had  neither  dried  up  nor  weakened  the 


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pure  fountain  of  his  filial  affection.     From  that  time  no  man  could 
have  shaken  my  faith  in  LEWIS  V.  BOGY. 

I  feel  sure  that  every  Senator  who  served  with  him  respected  his 
absolute  integrity  and  that  not  one  ever  entertained  even  a  moment 
ary  feeling  of  unkindness  toward  him.  The  kindly  traits  of  his 
character,  his  purity  of  life  and  purpose,  were  attested  in  all  the 
many  resolutions  passed  by  bar  meetings  and  societies  over  the  State 
of  Missouri.  These  noble  qualities  endeared  him  to  the  people  of 
his  native  State. 

Howe'er  it  be,  it  seems  to  me 

"Tis  only  noble  to  be  good. 
Kind  hearts  are  more  than  coronets, 

And  simple  faith  than  Norman  blood. 

Such  is  a  brief  sketch  of  LEWIS  VITAL  BOGY.  He  has  left  a 
lasting  and  good  impress  on  his  State,  has  set  a  good  example  here, 
and  did  not  live  in  vain. 


Address  of  Mr.  CHRISTIANCY,  of  Michigan. 

Mr.  PRESIDENT:  Not  a  mere  sense  of  propriety,  but  the  high 
esteem  and  personal  respect  which  I  entertained  for  the  man,  impel 
me  to  say  a  few  words  in  commemoration  of  Senator  BOGY,  whose 
voice,  once  familiar  to  us  here,  will  be  heard  no  more  in  this  Hall. 

A  descendant  of  the  early  French  settlers,  who,  under  the  auspices 
of  France,  had  established  a  solid  footing  in  Canada,  and  spread 
their  scattered  settlements  in  the  rear  of  the  English  columns,  from 
the  great  Lakes  almost  to  the  Gulf;  he  retained  many  of  the  char 
acteristics  of  that  people.  French  was  his  mother  tongue,  English 
an  acquired  language,  which  he  spoke  with  less  fluency,  and  always 
with  a  pronunciation  slightly  tinged  with  the  French  accent. 


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ADDRESS   OF   ME.    CHRISTIANCY   ON   THE 


Limited  as  his  early  education  had  been,  he  overcame  its  defects 
by  great  industry  and  application — neglecting  the  mere  literature 
and  lighter  accomplishments  of  the  time,  and  applying  all  his  ener 
gies  to  the  acquisition  of  useful  and  practical  knowledge,  which 
enabled  him  to  meet  the  real  struggle  of  life;  to  overcome  the 
obstacles  in  the  pathway  of  success ;  to  take  advantage  of  the  oppor 
tunities  presented  for  bettering  his  condition,  and  when  he  could 
not  control,  to  conform  himself  to,  and  make  the  most  of,  the  cir 
cumstances  by  which  he  was  surrounded.  Though  the  law  was  his 
profession,  and  he  obtained  a  good  standing  at  the  bar,  he  did  not 
confine  himself  to  the  studies  nor  to  the  routine  of  his  profession, 
but  turned  his  attention  to  questions  of  politics  and  statesmanship ; 
making  himself  familiar  especially  with  every  branch  of  knowledge 
essential  to  a  full  understanding  of  the  magnitude,  the  capabilities, 
the  interests,  and  the  wants  of  the  Great  West;  and  of  these  few 
men  had  more  ample  knowledge  or  appreciation.  The  whole  sub 
ject  of  the  public  lands ;  the  condition,  numbers,  and  character  of 
the  Indian  tribes ;  the  Indian  treaties ;  the  intercourse  with  and  the 
questions  of  policy  toward  the  Indians ;  the  character  and  condition 
of  the  frontier  settlers,  and  their  interests  and  wants  he  had  care 
fully  studied,  and  thoroughly  understood. 

He  was  also  a  man  of  action  and  of  enterprise;  a  pioneer  in  the 
system  of  railroad  improvements  in  his  own  State,  which  has  done 
so  much  to  develop  the  resources  of  that  State  and  of  the  States 
and  Territories  thence  westward  to  the  Pacific. 

As  Commissioner  of  Indian  Affairs  his  policy  and  all  his  actions  ap 
pear  to  have  been  dictated,  not  only  by  a  sense  of  justice,  but  by  a 
warm  kindness  for  the  race  and  the  noblest  promptings  of  humanity. 

He  was  a  man  of  positive  opinions  and  strong  convictions,  never 
shrinking  from  their  avowal,  and  always  ready  to  maintain  them 


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by  argument  to  the  utmost  of  his  abilities.  As  a  debater  in  the 
popular  forum,  or  in  the  Senate,  he  was  generally  well  posted  in  his 
facts,  and  warm  and  zealous,  and  even  enthusiastic,  in  argument. 
With  less  power  of  dealing  with  the  abstract  than  the  concrete,  he 
was  apt  to  spend  too  much  of  his  force  in  the  presentation  and  dis 
cussion  of  details,  instead  of  seizing  at  once  upon  the  general 
principles  involved  in  and  resulting  from  them.  This  naturally  led 
him  into  a  discursive  style,  and  often  weakened  the  real  force  of  his 
arguments.  With  too  little  power  of  abstraction  always  to  overlook 
or  disregard  non-essentials,  and  to  bring  out  prominently  to  view 
the  essential  principles  involved,  he  could  not  always  readily  render 
the  point  at  which  he  aimed  so  prominent  and  distinct,  even  to  his 
own  vision,  as  to  be  able  at  the  first  shot  to  hit  exactly  the  mark, 
though  he  generally  hit  near  it,  and  always  finally  made  up  for  this 
want  of  accuracy  of  sight  and  aim  by  a  continuous  repetition  of  his 
shots  till  the  point  was  finally  struck  or  worn  away  and  demolished 
by  the  constant  attrition  which  had  undermined  its  base. 

Patient,  laborious,  and  persistent  in  his  investigations,  he  shirked 
no  labor  essential  to  the  discharge  of  his  duties,  either  in  the  Senate 
or  upon  committee.  And  upon  committees  especially  he  exerted  all 
his  powers  and  labored  with  the  utmost  fidelity  to  reach  the  just 
and  proper  result.  His  sense  of  justice  was  strong  and  clear,  and 
he  spared  no  pains  in  reaching  a  just  result,  and  this  he  seemed 
often  to  reach  with  great  accuracy  by  a  kind  of  intuition  without 
being  able  to  state  with  logical  accuracy  the  steps  of  the  process  by 
which  he  had  reached  it.  Personally  he  was  kind,  gentle,  social, 
and  generous ;  and  these  traits  were  not  factitious  nor  put  on  for  the 
occasion,  but  real  and  essential  attributes  of  the  man  himself. 
Courteous  and  polite  in  his  intercourse  with  others,  as  from  his 
French  descent  it  was  but  natural  for  him  to  be,  he  never  allowed 


22  ADDRESS   OF   MR.    CHRISTIANCY   ON   THE 

his  courtesy  or  politeness  to  overcome  his  attachment  to  truth,  nor 
to  repress  his  condemnation  of  what  he  believed  to  be  wrong. 

Born  and  reared  a  Catholic,  and  conforming  his  faith  to  the 
teachings  of  his  church  with  the  confiding  trust  of  a  child  to  the 
authority  of  a  beloved  mother,  his  mind  was  untroubled  with 
doubts  of  his  future,  and  he  was  not  shaken  to  and  fro  by  the  spec 
ulations  of  philosophers  or  metaphysicians  whose  theories  always 
end  in  doubt  and  uncertainty.  And  if  a  man  can  bring  himself  to 
that  state  of  unquestioning  confidence  and  trust,  though  we  may 
not  be  able  to  agree  with  him,  who  shall  say  he  has  not  been  wise? 
The  solution  of  this  question  is  not  for  us,  but  for  Him  alone  whose 
field  of  vision  is  infinite,  while  ours  is  almost  infinitely  small. 

But  though  his  religious  belief  was  thus  settled,  he  was  tolerant 
of  the  beliefs  and  opinions  of  others. 

Finally,  I  will  say  that,  notwithstanding  our  differences  of  relig 
ious  and  political  belief,  the  more  I  saw  of  Senator  BOGY  the  more 
I  appreciated  the  qualities  of  his  head  and  heart  and  the  more 
warmly  I  became  attached  to  him.  And  when  the  intelligence  of 
his  death  reached  me,  sudden  and  unexpected  as  it  was,  I  felt,  and 
still  feel,  as  I  believe  this  Senate  feel,  a  deep  sense  of  bereavement 
at  his  loss,  as  for  the  loss  of  a  brother.  And  it  is  well  that  we  should 
cherish  these  sentiments.  Entering,  as  most  of  us  have  entered,  this 
Hall  after  middle  life,  we  must,  in  the  order  of  nature,  expect  the 
hand  of  Death  to  be  frequently  thrust  in  among  us,  claiming  his 
own  with  relentless  impartiality.  And  the  tribute  of  kindly  remem 
brance  which  we  render  to-day  to  one  of  our  number  may  any  day 
be  called  forth  in  behalf  of  any  of  us  in  our  turn  who  yet  survive. 

The  custom  of  devoting  one  day  to  the  memory  of  each  who  has 
been  cut  down,  reviewing  their  several  traits  of  character  with  the 
kindness  and  impartiality  which  death  can  command,  but  which  the 


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conflicts  of  opinion,  the  heat  and  misapprehensions  of  debate,  and 
the  diversities  of  party  views  often  obscure,  naturally  tends  to  make 
us  more  kind  and  lenient  in  judging  of  each  other's  opinions,  pur 
poses,  and  personal  qualities;  to  promote  mutual  respect  and  esteem, 
and  to  encourage  mutual  forbearance  and  charitable  judgments,  in 
spite  of  all  our  differences  of  opinions  upon  the  policies  and  meas 
ures  of  Government,  and  thus  to  keep  this  body — what  it  has  long 
been — the  most  courteous  legislative  body  in  the  world. 


Address  of  Mr.  JOHNSTON,  of  Virginia. 

Mr.  PRESIDENT:  Although  I  had  never  seen  Mr.  BOGY  till  we 
met  here  in  the  Senate,  it  early  came  about  that  we  were  thrown 
much  together  and  became  intimate  friends.  Like  most  men  of 
strong  and  striking  qualities,  he  was  not  without  peculiarities  of  man 
ner  and  character,  which,  looking  like  blemishes  at  first,  were  seen  at 
last  to  cover  genuine  virtues.  He  was  decided,  bold,  and  persistent 
in  the  formation  of  his  opinion  and  the  expression  of  his  views; 
and  if  he  seemed  sometimes  to  exhibit  what  might  have  been  con 
sidered  vehemence,  it  was  only  because  his  convictions  were  strong. 

In  the  friendly,  almost  confidential  intercourse  in  which  we  in 
dulged,  the  real  sterling  and  tender  traits  of  his  character  were 
brought  to  light.  He  spoke  to  me  often  of  his  children,  especially 
a  daughter  to  whom  he  seemed  to  be  deeply  attached  and  who  died 
only  about  a  year  before  him.  He  was  summoned  by  telegram  to 
visit  her  sick  bed,  in  expectation  that  her  demise  was  near  at  hand. 
But  the  journey  was  long,  and  before  he  reached  its  end  a  second 
message  informed  him  of  her  death.  On  his  return  he  unbosomed 
himself  to  me — spoke  of  her  tender  devotion  to  him,  her  anxiety  to 
see  him  and  obtain  his  blessing  before  death  parted  them,  and  his 


24  ADDEESS   OF   ME.    JOHNSTON   ON   THE 

own  sorrowful  heart.  And  I  am  fixed  in  the  belief  that  this  great 
sorrow  had  much  to  do  in  breaking  him  down,  and  making  him  fall 
an  easier  victim  to  the  disease  of  which  he  died. 

He  was  a  man  who  was  much  before  the  public  and  held  many 
important  trusts.  He  passed  through  the  ordeal  well  in  every  way, 
for  he  not  only  performed  the  duties  of  each  place  with  ability  and 
fidelity,  but  with  such  zeal,  devotion,  and  honor  that  he  escaped 
wholly  the  breath  of  calumny.  He  was  for  some  time  Commis 
sioner  of  Indian  Affairs,  a  position  which  in  our  peculiar  relations 
to  the  Indian  tribes,  the  difficulties  attending  its  honest  and  efficient 
execution,  the  suspicion  that  attaches  to  it  in  the  minds  of  many 
people,  makes  it  one  of  the  most  delicate,  difficult,  and  important 
offices  under  the  Government.  But  he  did  this  as  he  did  every 
thing  else,  well,  and  retired  with  honor  and  good-will  and  with  a 
vast  store  of  information  very  useful  to  him  and  the  country  when 
he  came  to  occupy  a  seat  upon  this  floor. 

He  was  one  of  the  few  men  who  in  early  life  blocked  out  a  career 
for  himself  and  attained  it,  for  it  is  well  authenticated  that  while 
yet  young  he  declared  his  purpose  of  reaching  the  Senate,  never  lost 
sight  of  it,  and  finally  accomplished  the  object  of  his  ambition. 

Senator  BOGY  was  emphatically  a  western  man.  No  statesman 
of  the  day  had  given  more  attention  to  the  country  between  the 
Mississippi  River  and  the  Pacific  Ocean  than  he  had.  Not  that 
he  underestimated  the  region  east  of  the  Mississippi,  but  he  believed 
that  the  ultimate  seat  of  empire  would  be  found  west  of  the  Mis 
sissippi,  and  that  in  its  growth  and  progress  were  embraced  the 
greatest  growth,  wealth,  prosperity,  and  progress  of  the  American 
people. 

And  it  is  surely  true  that  the  great  problem  of  our  country,  now 
pressing  for  solution,  exists  in  that  part  of  the  United  States.  The 


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silver  of  the  Sierras;  the  Indian  tribes,  presenting  the  exceptional 
condition  of  a  people  treated  by  us  partly  as  citizens  and  partly  as 
foreigners,  living  in  the  same  territory  with  us  and  yet  making 
treaties  with  our  Government;  the  Chinese  question,  so  ominous  of 
danger  and  so  hard  to  deal  with;  our  trade  with  China,  Japan, 
Australia;  the  railroads  to  the  Pacific,  already  constructed  and  yet 
to  be  built — all  these  he  had  studied  practically  and  thoroughly, 
especially  that  great  Indian  problem,  so  hard  and  yet  so  necessary 
to  solve.  He  knew  the  customs,  habits,  and  peculiarities  of  all  the 
tribes,  and  had  both  knowledge  and  wisdom  in  dealing  with  this  sub 
ject,  so  embarrassing  now  and  likely  to  be  so  for  years  yet  to  come. 
And  long  before  the  silver  question  became  the  absorbing  topic  it 
is  now,  Mr.  BOGY  was  one  of  the  first  in  either  House  to  perceive 
its  magnitude  and  public  interest.  While  most  of  our  public  men 
Avere  content  to  know  in  a  general  way  that  gold  and  silver  abounded 
in  the  region  looking  toward  the  Pacific,  he  had  already  acquired 
accurate  and  exhaustive  knowledge  of  the  whole  subject,  was  a 
pioneer,  and  foresaw  not  only  its  commercial  but  its  political  import 
ance.  That  he  died  pending  these  great  questions  is  much  to  be 
regretted.  His  counsels  would  have  been  valuable  to  his  country, 
and  his  death,  a  public  calamity  at  any  time,  is  doubly  so  now. 

But,  Mr.  President,  it  has  pleased  Providence  to  remove  him 
from  a  sphere  of  great  usefulness,  and  I  can  truly  pronounce  of 
him  what  after  all  is  the  best  eulogy  to  be  pronounced  upon  any 
man :  that  he  did  his  duty  honestly  through  life ;  that,  being  placed 
in  many  trying  and  responsible  situations,  he  came  safely  through 
them  all ;  that  he  was  devoted  to  his  domestic  relations,  was  a  useful 
citizen,  a  faithful  public  officer,  and  a  sincere  and  practical  member 
of  the  church  to  which  he  belonged.  And  these  things  being  said 
with  truth,  what  more  need  or  should  be  said? 


26  ADDEESS  OF  ME.  KEENAN  ON  THE 


Address  of  Mr.  KERNAN,  of  New  York. 

Mr.  PEESIDENT  :  My  personal  acquaintance  with  Senator  BOGY 
was  comparatively  brief.  It  began  in  this  Chamber  in  March, 
1875.  It  ended  last  March,  when  we  parted  here  with  mutual 
kind  wishes.  We  had  become  intimate,  and  that  intimacy  had 
grown  into  friendship.  I  respected  and  esteemed  him.  I  mourn 
his  loss,  and  willingly  unite  in  this  tribute  of  respect  to  his  char 
acter  and  memory. 

Mr.  BOGY  was  an  honest,  honorable  man.  As  a  member  of  the 
Legislature  of  Missouri,  and  as  Commissioner  of  Indian  Affairs  in 
1867  and  1868,  he  discharged  his  duties  with  ability  and  fidelity 
to  the  trusts  committed  to  his  charge. 

As  a  member  of  this  body  he  was  attentive  to  all  his  duties  and 
diligent  in  performing  them.  He  was  watchful  and  laborious  to 
protect  the  rights  and  promote  the  interest  of  the  State  he  repre 
sented,  and  to  promote  the  prosperity  and  welfare  of  the  entire 
Union.  He  possessed  much  and  varied  knowledge,  and  was  a  ready 
and  forcible  debater.  His  party  feelings  were  strong  but  he  did 
not  permit  them  to  swerve  him  from  doing  that  which  he  believed 
to  be  right  and  for  the  public  good.  By  his  death  the  State  of 
Missouri  has  lost  an  able  and  conscientious  representative,  and  this 
body  an  intelligent,  useful,  and  patriotic  member. 

In  private  life  he  was  a  genial  and  most  agreeable  companion,  a 
warm  and  sincere  friend.  No  one  could  hear  him  talk,  as  he  often 
did,  of  his  mother,  of  the  neighbors  among  whom  he  lived  in  boy 
hood,  of  the  parish  priest  who  taught  him  the  rudiments  of  the 
Latin  language,  of  his  wife  and  children,  without  being  impressed 
that  he  was  an  affectionate  son,  husband,  and  father. 


LIFE   AND   CHARACTER   OF   LEWIS   V.    BOGY.  27 

He  was  a  member  of  the  Catholic  Church,  and  firmly  believed 
the  creed  of  that  church.  He  professed  and  practiced  his  own  faith 
free  from  bigotry  or  uncharitableness  toward  others. 

Mr.  President,  the  death  of  our  friend  illustrates  the  uncertainty 
of  life,  the  certainty  of  death.  It  is  another  of  the  admonitions 
which  we  almost  daily  receive,  that  we  should  strive  to  so  live  that 
we  may  be  at  all  times  prepared  to  meet  our  Creator  and  our  Judge. 
I  trust  he  was  so  prepared.  Sincerely  mourning  his  death,  I,  in 
accordance  with  that  faith  which  we  both  held,  earnestly  pray  that 
his  spirit  may  rest  in  peace. 


Address  of  Mr.  MERRIMON,  of  North  Carolina. 

Mr.  PRESIDENT,  I  made  the  acquaintance  of  the  late  Senator 
BOGY  when  he  first  entered  this  Chamber  as  a  Senator.  From  that 
time  until  his  death  our  relations  were  friendly,  agreeable,  and 
cordial.  We  sat  near  each  other.  I  observed  his  course  of  action, 
conversed  much  and  freely  with  him,  and  came  to  know  him  very 
well  as  a  member  of  this  body. 

Mr.  BOGY  possessed  far  more  than  ordinary  capacities.  His 
educational  training  may  not  have  been  thorough  or  liberal — I 
know  not  how  this  was — but  his  intellectual  powers  were  in  large 
measure  well  developed.  It  will  not  be  claimed  that  he  had  acquired 
great  learning;  he  had,  however,  read  extensively  and  treasured 
much  from  his  reading  and  reflection.  He  had  considerable  expe 
rience  in  affairs ;  his  observation  was  large,  particularly  on  practical 
subjects;  he  was  virtually  inclined  to  be  practical  in  his  course  of 
thought  and  action.  He  thought  well  and  strongly  and  generally 
reached  accurate  conclusions. 


28  ADDRESS   OF   MR.   MERRIMON   ON  THE 

He  had  a  generous  nature;  he  was  frank,  affable,  and  sincere; 
sincere  in  his  friendships  and  in  all  he  said  and  did.  He  had  inde 
pendence  of  thought  and  action,  and  expressed  his  opinions  freely ; 
he  scorned  intrigue  and  circumvention. 

He  was  courageous;  quick  to  resent  and  repel  insult  and  injury; 
free  and  prompt  to  forgive  when  reparation  was  tendered. 

He  had  a  warm  heart,  and  his  affections  were  deep  and  tender. 
In  this  connection  may  I  be  pardoned  for  venturing  to  refer  to  an 
event  that  I  believe  hurried  him  to  his  grave.  On  an  occasion 
several  months  before  his  death  he  was  called  home  on  account  of 
the  illness  of  a  member  of  his  family.  A  favorite  daughter,  very 
dear  to  him,  died ;  and  ever  after  that  his  heart  seemed  to  be  over 
burdened  by  the  deepest  sorrow.  Sitting  near  me,  oftentimes,  he 
would  turn  to  me  and  speak  in  tender  and  touching  terms  of  his 
departed  daughter;  of  the  sweetness  of  her  nature;  of  the  noble 
qualities  of  her  mind  and  heart.  It  seemed  to  afford  him  a  melan 
choly  pleasure  to  recount  her  virtues.  This  sad  affliction  weighed 
down  his  spirits,  and,  I  thought  at  the  time,  affected  his  health. 
He  constantly  complained  of  bodily  illness  of  which  he  could  not 
rid  himself.  May  we  hope  that  his  departed  soul  has  rejoined  the 
sweet  spirit  of  that  daughter  in  a  better  world. 

Mr.  BOGY  was  a  sincere  patriot;  he  loved  his  whole  country;  he 
deplored  the  late  civil  war  and  the  conflicts  of  passions,  sectional 
jealousies,  animosities,  and  hatreds  growing  out  of  it.  He  warmly 
sympathized  with  the  people  of  the  South  in  their  struggles  for 
restoration  to  constitutional  rights  and  wholesome  government,  and 
earnestly  desired  the  complete  restoration  of  the  Union  in  spirit  as 
well  as  name. 

No  Senator  could  be  more  devoted  to  his  State  and  people  than 
he  was  to  the  State  and  people  of  Missouri.  He  was  ever  watchful 


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of  their  interests,  rights,  and  honors,  and  served  them  faithfully. 
He  believed  that  State  destined  to  become  in  most  respects  the  great 
State  of  the  Union,  and  Saint  Louis  the  central  and  greatest  city  of 
the  Mississippi  Valley.  He  experienced  pleasure  in  contemplating 
their  increasing  growth  of  population,  industries,  and  commerce  in 
coming  years. 

He  took  a  deep  interest  in  the  western  section  of  our  country — 
in  the  advancement  of  its  civilization  and  the  development  of  its 
material  interests.  He  was  the  warm  friend  and  advocate  of  every 
measure  which  in  his  judgment  looked  to  that  end.  And  in  this 
connection  he  was  not  unmindful  of  the  Indians,  their  rights,  their 
wants,  and  necessities,  as  well  as  the  most  effective  means  to  protect 
the  white  people  against  savage  treachery,  plunder,  and  barbarity. 
He  indulged  no  false  sentimentality  on  this  subject,  but  advocated 
a  just,  firm,  and  rigid  line  of  action  as  best  calculated  to  benefit  and 
protect  the  Indians  as  well  as  the  white  people. 

I  think  it  may  be  said  that  Mr.  BOGY  was  in  most  respects  a  fair 
type  of  the  western  man.  He  was  bold ;  full  of  energy,  enterprise, 
industry,  and  self-reliance.  He  was  neither  a  brilliant  nor  a  sensa 
tional  man,  in  the  common  acception  of  these  terms.  He  was  not 
ostentatious  in  his  deportment  or  speech,  but  he  was  earnest,  and 
belonged  to  that  other  class  of  useful  men  who  look  at  the  substance 
of  things,  and  who  by  constant  thought,  industrious  effort  in  con 
versation,  in  committee,  and  in  the  Senate,  quietly  mold  and  mature 
measures  that  affect,  direct,  and  control  the  interests  and  destinies 
of  the  Government  and  the  people.  He  was  neither  little,  narrow- 
minded,  nor  niggardly  in  his  views  of  government  and  measures  of 
public  policy.  On  the  contrary,  he  entertained  broad,  comprehen 
sive,  liberal,  and  catholic  views  on  these  subjects.  He  was  the  warm 
friend  of  every  legitimate  industry,  wherever  found,  in  the  borders 


30  ADDRESS   OF   MR.    SARGENT   ON   THE 

of  our  country,  and  all  measures  looking  to  the  encouragement  of 
the  same.  He  took  a  deep  and  anxious  interest  in  every  effort  to 
restore,  enlarge,  and  extend  our  commerce,  not  only  domestic  but 
in  every  quarter  of  the  world,  and  especially  in  South  America  and 
the  East  Indies.  Nothing  calculated  to  advance  and  secure  these 
great  ends  escaped  his  observation  or  failed  to  receive  in  some  way 
his  support. 

Mr.  BOGY  was  a  distinguished  citizen  of  his  State  and  the  Union, 
and  in  a  large,  important,  and  honorable  sense,  a  useful  Senator, 
who  reflected  credit  on  himself,  his  State,  and  our  common  country. 

I  experience  sad  pleasure  in  making  these  imperfect  references  to 
some  of  the  many  excellent  features  of  his  character,  and  other  some 
of  his  meritorious  deeds.  I  do  not  pretend  that  he  was  free  from 
the  imperfections,  weaknesses,  perhaps  vices,  common  to  human 
nature;  like  the  generality  of  mankind  he  had  his  faults. 

But  his  labors  are  ended,  his  term  of  this  life  is  over;  the  inter 
ests,  the  wealth,  the  blandishments,  and  the  honors  of  this  world 
have  ceased  forever  to  be  interesting  to  him.  These  things  cannot 
affect  or  awaken  him  from  the  cold  slumbers  of  the  grave.  His 
spirit  has  gone  to  meet  his  Maker  and  experience  the  realities  of 
eternal  things.  Let  us  profit  by  his  example;  let  us  avoid  and  for 
get  his  faults ;  let  us  remember  his  virtues  and  imitate  and  emulate 
his  good,  his  noble  deeds. 


Address  of  Mr.  SARGENT,  of  California. 

Mr.  PRESIDENT:  I  will  detain  the  Senate  to  add  but  a  few  words 
to  these  tributes  to  our  departed  associate  and  friend.  I  remember 
the  suddenness  with  which  came  to  me  the  announcement  of  his 
death.  At  the  close  of  the  previous  session  of  Congress,  anticipating 


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an  extra  session  early  in  the  summer  and  fearing  that  I  might  be 
detained  at  my  distant  home,  I  had  arranged  a  pair  with  him  on 
political  questions.  I  remember  that  he  spoke  pleasantly  of  meet- 
ins:  me  at  this  December  session,  if  not  before.  Alas,  before  the 

O  f  9 

extra  session  came  he  was  summoned  hence,  to  be  hero  no  more 
forever.  Thus  uncertain  is  life.  Thus  death  constantly  invades 
even  this  narrow  circle,  thins  our  numbers,  and  reminds  us  that 
no  gravity  of  employment,  no  eminence  of  station,  no  interest, 
public  or  private,  can  arrest  its  fateful  decrees. 

We  are  such  stuff 

As  dreams  are  made  of,  and  our  little  life 
Is  rounded  with  a  sleep. 

Mr.  BOGY  had  improved  by  cultivation  more  than  by  ordinary 
natural  gifts.  His  intellectual  processes  were  rapid  and  exhaustive. 
His  mind  teemed  with  suggestions  in  support  of  his  convictions. 
He  was  most  positive  in  his  opinions,  bold  and  uncompromising  in 
uttering  them;  a  strong  partisan  of  a  radical  school.  He  was 
always  armed,  ready  to  defend  his  party  and  attack  its  opponents. 
But  I  think  the  record  of  debates  and  the  memory  of  Senators  will 
be  taxed  in  vain  to  find  an  instance  where  he  was  discourteous  to  a 
brother  Senator,  or  where  he  showed  that  the  collision  of  debate 
had  excited  him  to  anger  against  his  opponent  here.  His  inter 
course  with  his  associates  on  this  floor  showed  that  a  man  of  warm 
feelings  and  strong  partisanship,  while  maintaining  the  extremest 
points  of  his  political  creed,  may  have  a  friendship  for  and  enjoy 
the  friendship  of  those  most  opposed  to  his  views. 

It  is  well  that  this  should  be  so.  We  are  here  from  constituencies 
as  diverse  in  opinion  as  location.  The  friction  of  every  strong  pas 
sion  in  the  country  is  here  felt.  Opinions  are  constantly  expressed 
here  that  are  the  natural  outgrowth  of  sections  of  the  country,  which 


32          ADDRESS  OF  MR.  ARMSTRONG  ON  THE 

seem  most  strange,  even  abhorrent,  to  Senators  who  represent  other 
parts  of  the  country.  Our  national  domain  is  broad  and  our  interests 
diverse,  often  conflicting,  and  party  zeal  differs  in  intensity  and 
direction  in  different  localities.  All  these  conditions  inspire  our 
debates  and  lead  to  diverse  views.  But  we  learn  tolerance  of  each 
other's  opinions  and  utterances  by  our  long-continued  association 
here,  and  that  the  Senator  extreme  in  his  partyism  of  any  shade  may 
be  kind  and  courteous  in  feeling,  self-respecting  and  respecting  the 
rights  of  his  peers. 

Such  was  our  deceased  friend  in  his  intercourse  with  Senators. 
From  the  proximity  of  the  seats  which  we  occupied  I  was  much  in 
contact  with  him,  and  learned  to  appreciate  his  real  goodness  of 
heart  and  his  constant  courtesy,  while  generally  differing  from  his 
views  and  utterances  upon  public  men,  measures,  and  policy. 


Address  of  Mr.  ARMSTRONG,  of  Missouri. 

Mr.  PRESIDENT  :  The  grave  seals  the  lips  of  unfriendly  criticism, 
and  should  also  close  them  against  the  hypocrisy  of  indiscriminate 
laudation.  In  the  few  remarks  I  have  to  offer  on  this  mournful 
occasion  it  will  be  my  purpose  to  briefly  sketch  the  history  of  my 
lamented  friend,  with  whom  I  have  been  intimately  acquainted 
for  more  than  thirty-five  years — pointing  to  features  of  his  character 
and  such  acts  of  his  life  as  should  teach  useful  lessons  to  the  living, 
and  make  his  memory  dear  to  his  countrymen. 

LEWIS  VITAL  BOGY  was  born  in  the  town  of  Sainte  Genevieve, 
Sainte  Genevieve  County,  Missouri,  on  the  9th  day  of  April,  1813. 


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His  father  was  a  Canadian  Frenchman — one  of  the  successors  of  the 
brave  Marquette,  La  Salle,  and  Laclede — one  of  the  race  of  hardy 
pioneers  who  pitched  the  tents  of  civilization  on  the  shores  of  the 
great  lakes  and  along  the  banks  of  the  Illinois  and  Mississippi 
Rivers. 

Like  almost  every  other  youth  in  the  western  wilderness  at  that 
day,  young  BOGY  gathered  the  rudiments  of  an  English  education 
in  the  primitive  log  school-house  of  the  times,  and  supplemented 
this  by  careful  and  presevering  study  at  home. 

He  spent  some  of  his  early  days  as  a  clerk  in  a  country  store  for 
the  purpose  of  acquiring  means  to  enable  him  to  prepare  for  a  pro 
fessional  career. 

In  1832  he  commenced  the  study  of  law  in  the  office  of  Nathaniel 
Pope,  judge  of  the  United  States  district  court,  at  Kaskaskia,  Illi 
nois.  Shortly  after  this  period  the  Black  Hawk  war  broke  out,  and 
young  BOGY,  like  nearly  every  other  young  man  in  that  region,  at 
once  abandoned  his  favorite  pursuits,  volunteered  as  a  private  soldier, 
and  marched  to  the  front  to  protect  our  widely  extended  and  then 
sparsely  settled  frontier.  Returning  after  an  honorable  discharge, 
he  completed  his  legal  studies  at  the  law  school  of  Transylvania 
University,  Lexington,  Kentucky,  where  he  graduated  in  1835. 
He  at  once  began  the  practice  of  law  in  Saint  Louis,  and  his  success 
in  this  profession  led  to  the  accumulation  of  a  handsome  fortune. 

In  1840  he  was  elected  to  the  lower  house  of  the  Missouri  General 
Assembly  from  Saint  Louis  County  as  a  whig.  He  took  a  promi 
nent  part  in  the  proceedings  of  that  body,  and  was  one  of  its  leading 
members. 

In  1852  he  was  nominated  for  Congress  in  the  Saint  Louis  con 
gressional  district  by  the  democratic  party,  and  was  defeated  by 
Colonel  Benton  who  ran  independently. 


34  ADDJRESS   OF   MR.    ARMSTRONG   ON  THE 

Having  removed  from  Saint  Louis  to  Sainte  Genevieve,  in  1854 
he  was  elected  from  that,  his  native  county,  to  again  serve  the 
people  as  a  representative  in  the  General  Assembly.  That  body  gave 
State  aid  largely  for  the  construction  of  railroads  in  Missouri.  No 
man  took  a  more  active  part  in  the  exciting  discussions  and  inter 
esting  proceedings  of  the  General  Assembly,  consequent  upon  the 
adoption  of  these  measures,  or  had  a  more  commanding  influence 
upon  its  legislation,  than  Colonel  BOGY. 

Courteous,  considerate,  genial,  and  liberal  in  his  views,  even  his 
opponents  regretted  to  differ  from  him. 

In  1862  he  was  nominated  for  Congress  a  second  time  in  the  Saint 
Louis  congressional  district ;  but  amid  the  throes  of  the  terrible  con 
vulsions  of  that  period  no  democrat  could  be  elected.  The  courage 
and  self-control  of  the  leader  were  not  possessed  by  a  majority  of 
his  friends;  and,  after  a  bold  and  fearless  campaign,  he  was  again 
defeated. 

In  1866  he  was  appointed  by  President  Johnson  Commissioner  of 
Indian  Affairs.  He  discharged  the  very  laborious  duties  of  that  office 
in  so  faithful  and  competent  a  manner  that  even  his  bitterest  oppo 
nents  failed  to  discover  any  deviation  from  the  strictest  rectitude. 

In  January,  1873,  his  highest  aspirations  were  crowned  with  suc 
cess,  by  an  election  to  the  United  States  Senate — the  distinguished 
eminence  to  which  his  boyish  ambition  looked  forward  with  a  sin 
gular  yet  prophetic  confidence. 

He  died  at  his  family  residence  in  Saint  Louis  on  the  20th  day  of 
September,  1877,  and  now 

"  Sleeps  the  sleep  that  knows  not  breaking'1 

in  the  quiet  shades  of  Calvary  Cemetery,  in  the  suburbs  of  that  city. 
He  died,  as  he  had  lived,  a  faithful,  trusting,  and  exemplary 


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member  of  the  Catholic  Church — the  church  to  which  his  fathers 
for  generations  had  belonged. 

The  remote  cause  of  his  death  was  of  an  intermittent  malarial 
character,  little  thought  of  at  first,  to  which  was  added  the  extreme 
exhaustion  consequent  on  the  excitement,  mental  strain,  and  over 
work,  imposed  by  his  chivalric  idea  of  the  duties  he  owed  to  his 
party  and  his  country  on  this  floor,  during  the  eventful  winter  of 
1876  and  1877. 

This,  Mr.  President,  is  the  brief  record  of  a  busy,  useful,  and  not 
uneventful  life.  During  his  whole  career  he  was  an  earnest  advo 
cate  and  liberal  supporter  of  all  measures  that  looked  to  the  largest 
industrial  developments  of  the  wonderful  mineral  and  agricultural 
resources  of  his  native  State.  Early  and  late,  in  sickness  and  in 
health,  his  devotion  to  these  interests  knew  no  abatement,  and  was 
proverbial  throughout  the  West. 

He  knew  that  Missouri  was  the  storehouse  of  vast  wealth,  both  of 
the  soil  and  of  the  mine,  and  that  these  undeveloped  treasures  were 
almost  worthless  until  they  could  be  brought  to  the  markets  of  the 
world.  He  clearly  comprehended  this,  and  gave  his  time,  talents, 
and  fortune  to  inaugurate  a  system  of  railways  that  should  stimu 
late  settlements,  and  furnish  transportation  facilities  to  all  parts  of 
the  State.  The  network  of  railways  spread  over  Missouri  at  this 
time,  and  which  has  done  much  to  make  Saint  Louis  the  fourth  city 
in  the  United  States,  and  raised  our  State  from  the  sixteenth  to  the 
fifth  in  the  Union,  is  largely  indebted  to  his  endeavors  and  his  coun 
sels  for  its  existence. 

He  also  spent  much  time  and  money  in  the  development  of 
our  mineral  resources ;  and  his  example,  inspiring  others,  has  so  ex 
tended  explorations  and  mining  operations  as  to  prove  that  Missouri 
has  enough  iron,  lead,  and  zinc  to  supply  the  wants  of  the  world. 


36          ADDRESS  OF  MR.  ARMSTRONG  ON  THE 

He  was  opposed  to  all  monopolies,  and  believed  in  the  doctrine 
that  every  great  community  should  be  self-sustaining,  and  measur 
ably  independent  in  all  leading  industries.  Hence  he  was  a  firm 
and  earnest  friend  of  manufactures,  and  proved  his  faith  by  his 
works.  His  teaching  and  example  were  among  the  influences  that 
have  made  Saint  Louis  the  third  manufacturing  city  in  the  United 
States. 

He  fought,  Mr.  President,  the  battle  of  life  all  the  way  up-hill, 
overcoming  obstacles,  and  dispelling  opposition,  that  would  have 
subdued  a  man  of  feebler  temper.  Inspired  with  a  lofty  ambition, 
he  sought  distinction,  not  for  itself,  but  that  it  might  render  him 
more  serviceable  to  his  State  and  his  country ;  and  for  these  he 
labored  with  a  zeal  that  never  flagged,  and  a  vigilance  that  never 
slept.  During  his  life's  career,  from  the  stripling  on  the  frontier 
of  the  far  West  to  the  conscript  father  in  the  Senate  Chamber,  he 
was  always  busy,  earnest,  and  indefatigable  in  the  attempt  to  achieve 
results  beneficial  to  his  fellow-men. 

His  personal  integrity  and  his  high  sense  of  honor  were  never 
questioned. 

Without  pretending  to  the  polish  of  the  rhetorician  or  the  arts  of 
the  orator,  he  was  earnest  and  effective  in  debate,  sinking  the 
politician  in  the  patriot,  warmly  contending  for  what  he  deemed 
right,  and  like  a  true  statesman,  working  for  the  great  interests  of 
the  people  and  the  good  of  the  whole  country. 

Beloved  by  his  relatives,  honored  by  his  friends,  and  respected 
by  his  opponents,  he  filled  his  place  with  equal  credit  to  himself  and 
advantage  to  his  State ;  and,  without  towering  genius  or  vaulting 
ambition,  yet — 

The  elements 

So  mix'd  in  him  that  Nature  might  stand  up 
And  say  to  all  the  world,  "  This  was  a  man!  " 


LIFE   AND   CHAEACTER  OF   LEWIS   V.    BOGY.  37 

The  truth  of  the  following  language,  used  by  one  who  knew  him 
intimately  and  well,  will  be  vouched  for  by  all  his  fellow-citizens 
that  had  the  pleasure  of  a  close  acquaintance. 

"The  death  of  Senator  BOGY  is  not  only  a  great  loss  to  Missouri  and  to  the  Missis 
sippi  Valley,  but  it  is  a  public  calamity.  He  was  as  pure  as  burnished  gold.  He 
was  proof  against  all  venal  influences.  Reaching  that  degree  of  confidence  among 
his  contemporaries  in  the  Senate,  and  through  the  belief  in  his  own  powers  which 
experience  in  a  familiar  theater  of  action  gives,  he  was  in  a  condition  to  render, 
during  the  remaining  one-third  of  his  term  in  the  Senate,  the  State,  the  valley  and 
the  Union  more  statesmanlike  services  than  he  before  could  have  done." 

Thus,  Mr.  President,  I  have  simply  and  briefly  alluded  to  those 
points  in  the  character  and  history  of  our  deceased  friend  that  should 
be  a  lesson  to  the  living,  inspiring  a  laudable  ambition  and  stimu 
lating  to  successful  achievement. 

And  here  too,  as  we  engrave  "  rest  in  peace  "  on  the  tomb  of  my 
predecessor,  comes  the  note  of  warning  and  instruction.  As  one  by 
one  our  colleagues  pass  behind  the  dark  curtain  and  as  day  by  day 
we  behold  the  mighty  procession  moving  on,  out  of  the  sunlight  and 
starlight  into  the  shadows  of  the  great  unknown,  there  comes  the 
voice  of  admonition  to — 

Work  while  it  is  day:  for  the  night  cometh,  when  no  man  can  work. 

Mr.  President,  as  a  further  testimonial  of  respect  to  the  memory 
of  the  deceased,  I  move  that  the  Senate  do  now  adjourn. 

The  motion  was  agreed  to  unanimously ;  and  (at  two  o'clock  p.  m.) 
the  Senate  adjourned. 


PEOCEEDINGS 


HOUSE    OF    REPRESENTATIVES. 


ANNOUNCEMENT. 


MESSAGE    FEOM    THE    SENATE. 

A  message  was  received  from  the  Senate,  by  Mr.  SYMPSON,  one 
of  its  Clerks,  announcing  the  proceedings  of  that  body  on  the  death 
of  LEWIS  V.  BOGY,  late  a  Senator  from  Missouri. 

DEATH  OF  THE  LATE  LEWIS  V.  BOGY. 

The  SPEAKER  laid  the  resolutions  before  the  House;  and 
they  were  read  as  follows : 

IN  THE  SENATE  OF  THE  UNITED  STATES, 

January  1G,  1878. 

Resolved,  That  the  Senate  has  received  with  profound  sorrow  tho  announcement 
of  the  death  of  Hon.  LEWIS  V.  BOGY,  late  a  Senator  of  the  United  States  from  the 
State  of  Missouri. 

Resolved,  That,  as  a  mark  of  respect  to  the  memory  of  Hon.  LEWIS  V.  BOGY,  the 
business  of  the  Senate  be  now  suspended,  that  his  former  associates  may  pay  proper 
tribute  to  his  public  and  private  virtues. 

Resolved,  That,  as  a  further  mark  of  respect  for  the  memory  of  the  deceased,  the 
members  of  the  Senate  will  wear  the  usual  badge  of  mourning  for  thirty  days. 

Ordered,  That  the  Secretary  communicate  these  resolutions  to  the  House  of  Rep 
resentatives. 

Mr.  COLE.  I  move  that  these  resolutions  lie  on  the  table ;  and 
I  respectfully  give  notice  that  on  next  Wednesday  at  three  o'clock 
I  will  call  them  up. 

The  SPEAKER.  In  the  absence  of  objection  it  will  be  so 
ordered. 


WEDNESDAY,  January  £3,  1878. 

DEATH   OF  SENATOR   BOGY. 

The  SPEAKER.  The  hour  of  three  o'clock  having  been  fixed 
as  the  time  for  taking  up  the  resolutions  of  the  Senate  in  relation 
to  the  death  of  the  late  Senator  BOGY,  of  Missouri,  and  that  hour 
having  arrived,  the  Clerk  will  read  the  resolutions  of  the  Senate. 

The  Clerk  read  as  follows : 

IN  THE  SENATE  OP  THE  UNITED  STATES, 

January  10,  1S78. 

Resolved,  That  the  Senate  has  received  with  profound  sorrow  the  announcement 
of  the  death  of  Hon.  LEWIS  V.  BOQY,  late  a  Senator  of  the  United  States  from  the 
State  of  Missouri. 

Resolved,  That,  as  a  mark  of  respect  to  the  memory  of  Hon.  LEWIS  V.  BOGY,  the 
business  of  the  Senate  be  now  suspended,  that  his  former  associates  may  pay  proper 
tribute  to  his  public  and  private  virtues. 

Resolved,  That,  as  a  further  mark  of  respect  to  the  memory  of  the  deceased,  the 
members  of  the  Senate  will  wear  the  usual  badge  of  mourning  for  thirty  days. 

Ordered,  That  the  Secretary  communicate  these  resolutions  to  the  House  of  Rep 
resentatives. 


ADDRESSES. 


Address  of  Mr.  COLE,  of  Missouri. 

Mr.  SPEAKER  :  Standing  in  the  dark  shadow  of  a  great  sorrow  it 
is  fitting  that  there  should  be  a  truce  to  all  divisions ;  that,  meeting 
to-day  upon  a  common  sacred  ground,  we  may  with  fervent  words 
of  unfeigned  sorrow  repeat  the  story  of  a  useful  life.  If  there  be 
animosities  let  them  give  place  to  better  thoughts.  If  there  be 
enmities  let  them  depart  this  sacred  spot  while  here  we  join  clean 
hands  over  the  grave  of  the  departed  one  whose  deeds,  whose  words 
are  now  the  priceless  heritage  of  his  countrymen.  Thus  doing  we 
may  pluck  from  sorrow's  crown  some  precious  flower  fragrant  with 
the  perfumes  of  a  charity  which  shall  sweeten  the  memories  of  him 
we  mourn  and  breathe  upon  all  hearts  the  impulse  toward  a  better 
life. 

A  generation,  Mr.  Speaker,  has  passed  away  since  first  I  had  the 
pleasure-  of  meeting  LEWIS  VITAL,  BOGY,  then  verging  toward 
manhood's  prime  estate  and  giving  evidence  of  that  leadership  to 
which  his  genius  impelled  him,  the  full  fruition  of  which  he  after 
ward  realized.  In  that  long  acquaintance  I  trust  I  learned  in  some 
degree  to  appreciate  the  excellences  which  so  well  adorned  his 
character.  Let  this  then  be  my  apology,  if  one  were  needed,  for 
thus  detaining  you  for  a  few  moments  that  I  may  express,  however 
imperfectly,  those  words  of  sorrow  for  the  loss  which  our  common 
country  has  sustained ;  as  well  as  endeavor  to  exalt  those  virtues 
which  he  so  happily  possessed. 

Nature  had  endowed  our  friend  with  a  form  of  manly  dignity 
and  a  face  of  remarkable  suavity  and  impressive  benevolence. 

Death  found  strange  beauty  on  that  polished  brow  and  dashed  it  out. 

(45) 


46  ADDEESS   OF   ME.    COLE   ON   THE 

I  need  not  refer  to  his  remarkably  pleasing  manners ;  they  were 
the  admiration  of  all  who  met  him;  added  to  which  his  courtly 
yet  modest  bearing  at  once  stamped  him  as  the  finished  American 
gentleman  in  every  sense.  These  gifts  and  graces,  so  much  admired, 
were  supplemented  by  a  mind  naturally  strong  and  gifted,  and 
which  had  been  trained  not  in  the  halls  of  academic  lore  under  the 
ripening  touch  of  learned  professors,  but  in  his  converse  with 
nature,  his  contact  with  men  and  things,  and  in  the  brief  hours  of 
study  snatched  from  the  intervals  of  toil  and  earnest  conflict  with 
the  events  of  life.  Like  so  many  of  our  countrymen  who  have 
reached  great  heights  of  distinction  and  honor,  he,  too,  toiled  up 
by  thorny  paths,  steep  and  rugged  ways,  often  almost  despairing 
of  reaching  the  coveted  goal,  yet  always  pressing  on,  if  possible  to 
secure  the  prize. 

The  senatorial  seat  to  which  he  aspired  in  the  day-dreams  of 
youth  with  patriotic  longings,  after  an  almost  life-time  struggle,  at 
length  he  gained.  Hence,  having  struggled  on  and  up,  the  disci 
pline  acquired  only  the  more  thoroughly  fitted  him  to  sympathize 
with  all  in  every  grade  through  which  he  passed.  How  well,  there 
fore,  he  filled  his  place  his  compeers  have  not  shunned  to  say,  and 
while  to-day  they  miss  his  manly  form,  still  more  do  they  miss  his 
wise  counsels,  sagacious  judgment,  and  intelligent  interpretation  of 
the  popular  will. 

His  industry  was  of  the  highest  type,  work  was  his  natural  ele 
ment,  and  his  busy  brain  was  apparently  tireless  in  the  tasks  to 
Avhich  he  addressed  himself  in  his  public  duties. 

His  fidelity  to  his  convictions  was  simply  the  exhibition  of  that 
remarkable  integrity  of  character  which  adorned  his  life  and  shed 
upon  it  a  light  of  unfading  luster.  This  same  characteristic  gave 
strength  to  his  public  life,  inspired  confidence  in  all  who  came  under 


LIFE   AND   CHARACTER   OF   LEWIS   V.    BOGY.  47 

his  influence,  and  gave  him  a  remarkable  power  over  not  only  his 
own  political  associates,  but  also  over  his  opponents. 

I  would  not,  Mr.  Speaker,  wish  to  lift  the  veil  of  sanctified  do 
mestic  life  or  peer  within  the  portals  of  that  home  now  shrouded  in 
sorrow;  but  allow  me  to  say  it  was  the  home  of  joy,  of  confidence,  of 
affection,  as  beautiful  and  pure  as  earth  possessed. 

To  the  Father  of  all  we  would  commend  this  deeply  stricken 
household.  The  loving  words  and  tender  acts  of  human  sympathy 
are  too  feeble  to  reach  the  deep  and  painful  grief  caused  by  the  re 
moval  of  one  so  loved,  so  honored,  in  the  home  which  he  cherished 
with  such  tender  affection. 

To  sum  up  the  character  of  our  friend  would  be  to  say  that  in 
him  we  find  the  wise  counsellor  and  advocate,  the  high-minded,  in 
telligent  merchant,  banker,  and  manufacturer,  the  statesman  at  once 
fearless  and  independent,  incorruptible  and  patriotic. 

In  the  immediate  family  connection  we  behold  the  devoted  son, 
the  tender  brother,  the  fond  father,  the  loving  husband.  As  a  friend, 
steadfast  and  immovable,  careful,  considerate,  and  obliging. 

"With  all  these  virtues,  however,  he,  too,  must  bow  to  that  sure 
fate  which  is  the  lot  of  all.  That  pale-faced  messenger  which  hangs 
upon  our  pathway  cannot  be  appeased  by  accomplishments,  either 
of  person  or  mind,  however  beautiful  or  illustrious. 

While  to  be  able  to  say  these  things  with  truthfulness  in  some 
measure  mitigates  the  sorrow  for  our  loss  and  lends  encouragement 
for  us  to  imitate  him  in  their  acquirement,  at  the  same  time  it 
teaches  how  great  the  loss  his  friends,  his  family,  and  his  country 
have  sustained. 

May  the  lessons  of  his  life  inspire  us  with  higher  resolves,  more 
fervent  aspirations  for  usefulness,  stronger  desires  for  the  attainment 
of  excellences  of  character.  May  his  death  admonish  us  that  life 


48  ADDRESS   OF   MR.    WADDELL   ON  THE 

is  the  span  of  man's  activities,  and  that  whatsoever  the  hand  findeth 
to  do  we  should  do  it  with  our  might,  that  it  may  be  said  of  us,  as 
we  say  of  him,  he  did  what  he  could. 

Life's  a  debtor  to  the  grave. 

Dark  lattice,  letting  in  eternal  day. 

Time  speeds  us  each  with  swift  and  tireless  flight  toward  the  land 
of  shadows  and  forgetfulness.  Whatever  may  be  said  or  thought 
of  us  when  life's  transient  day  is  o'er,  may  it  be  our  lot  to  leave 
behind  the  heritage  of  a  good  name,  the  legacy  of  a  life  well  spent, 
and  to  reach 

That  shore 
Where  storms  are  hushed,  where  tempests  never  rage ; 

Where  angry  skies  and  blackening  seas  no  more 
With  gusty  strength  their  roaring  warfare  wage; 

By  them  its  peaceful  margents  shall  be  trod, 
Their  home  be  heaven,  and  their  friend  be  God. 


Address  of  Mr.  WADDELL,  of  North  Carolina. 

Mr.  SPEAKER  :  Forty-six  years  ago  a  youth  of  nineteen  years  of 
age,  whose  opportunities  for  advancement  had  been  very  few,  whose 
means  were  scant,  and  whose  prospects  seemed  to  be  in  no  degree 
flattering,  wrote  a  letter  to  his  mother,  to  whom  he  was  devoted 
throughout  his  life,  in  which  he  expressed  a  determination  to  repre 
sent  his  native  State  of  Missouri  in  the  Senate  of  the  United  States 
before  he  was  sixty  years  old.  It  was  regarded  as  only  the  utter 
ance  of  a  youthful  dreamer  whose  castle  in  the  air  would  soon 
vanish  before  the  blighting  blast  of  adversity ;  but  there  was  in  the 
boy  what  fighters  call  "  the  staying  quality,"  and  it  soon  began  to 
develop  itself.  Passing  through  the  Black  Hawk  war  as  a  private 
soldier,  he  studied  law,  and  in  1835  stepped  well-shod  into  that 
highway  along  which  cluster  most  abundantly  public  honors  in  this 


LIFE   AND   CHARACTER   OF   LEWIS   V.    BOGY.  49 

country.  Advancing  rapidly  and  gathering  fortune  as  he  went, 
but  encountering  frequently  defeat  and  disappointment,  he  kept  his 
gaze  fixed  upon  the  goal  of  his  youth,  and  finally,  before  the  close 
of  his  sixtieth  year,  wrote  his  name  in  the  other  end  of  this  Capitol — 
LEWIS  V.  BOGY,  Senator  from  Missouri. 

What  a  lesson  is  here !  I  come  not  to  speak  the  language  which 
so  fittingly  becomes  surviving  friendship  on  an  occasion  like  this, 
for  it  was  not  my  privilege  to  enjoy  that  relation  in  an  especial 
manner  toward  him  who  "  has  fallen  asleep."  I  am  performing  an 
office  of  respect  and  friendship  for  the  living,  upon  whose  sugges 
tion  I  speak;  and  in  the  discharge  of  this  duty,  while  yielding 
homage  to  the  many  virtues,  private  and  public,  which  all  unite  in 
ascribing  to  him,  this  remarkable  exhibition  of  dauntless  courage 
and  tireless  devotion  throughout  a  long  life  to  the  attainment  of  a 
high  and  honorable  distinction  seems  to  me  to  be  most  worthy  of 
comment.  It  is  a  record  eminently  proper  to  place  before  the  youth 
of  our  land  for  emulation.  The  spirit  which  animated  him  who 
made  it,  is  the  spirit  which  always  has  and  always  will  conquer  the 
world.  He  who  possesses  it  has  within  him  the  prime  element  of 
greatness,  which  no  obstacle  can  baffle,  no  danger  appal,  and  which 
death  can  only  destroy.  Nay,  sir,  death  itself  destroys  it  not,  for, 
stripped  of  its  earthly  fetters,  it  soars  immortal  toward  its  home. 
At  no  period  of  our  history  could  the  cultivation  of  this  spirit  be 
more  wisely  urged  or  its  illustration  by  such  examples  be  more  ap 
propriately  alluded  to  than  at  this  time,  when  all  the  depressing 
and  demoralizing  influences  of  prostrate  industries  and  paralyzed 
commerce  are  at  work  among  us ;  when  singleness  of  purpose,  un 
flagging  perseverance  toward  noble  ends,  and  high  moral  courage 
are  so  sorely  needed.  These  were  the  characteristics  which  marked 
the  life  of  the  dead  Senator.  Let  us  imitate  them. 


50  ADDRESS   OF   MR.   HATCHER   ON  THE 

Mr.  Speaker,  since  you  and  I  came  for  the  first  time  to  take  our 
places  in  this  Chamber  there  have  been  a  score  of  seats  made  vacant 
by  the  rider  of  the  pale  horse.  He  has  reaped  a  rich  harvest  in  the 
splendid  halls  of  this  building. 

To  the  past  go  more  dead  faces 

Every  year ; 
As  the  loved  leave  vacant  places, 

Every  year. 

Standing  here  and  reflecting  upon  these  things,  let  us  heed  the 
noble  utterance  of  one  of  our  immortal  countrymen:  "'Duty'  is 
the  sublimest  word  in  our  language."  These  ceremonies  may  soon 
be  performed  for  you  and  me;  and,  if  so,  our  friends  can  pay  us  no 
higher  tribute  than  to  say  that  here  and  everywhere  we  did  our  duty. 

Yes,  the  shores  of  life  are  shifting, 

Every  year, 
And  we  are  seaward  drifting, 

Every  year. 

Old  places,  changing,  fret  us, 
The  living  more  forget  us, 
There  are  fewer  to  regret  us, 

Every  year. 

But  the  truer  life  draws  nigher, 

Every  year, 
And  its  morning  star  climbs  higher, 

Every  year ; 

Earth's  hold  on  us  grows  slighter, 
And  the  heavy  burden  lighter, 
And  the  dawn  immortal  brighter, 
Every  year. 


Address  of  Mr.  HATCHER,  of  Missouri. 

Mr.  SPEAKER:  It  is  fitting  that  I  should  pay  my  humble  tribute 
to  the  memory  of  the  distinguished  Senator  from  Missouri,  who, 
since  our  last  assembling,  has  been  called  to  his  long  home. 

I  represent  the  district  in  which  he  was  born.  Sixty-four  years 
ago,  in  the  old  town  of  Sainte  Genevieve,  his  eyes  first  opened  to  the 


LIFE   AND   CHARACTER  OF   LEWIS  V.   BOGY.  51 

light  of  day;  and,  sir,  I  do  not  in  the  least  exceed  the  language  of 
sober  truth  when  I  declare  that  there  was  not  a  resident  of  that  ven 
erable  old  hamlet  who  did  not  feel  in  the  loss  of  Senator  BOGY  a 
personal  bereavement.  He  had  endeared  himself  to  her  people  by 
a  youth  full  of  promise,  a  middle  age  of  abundant  enterprise  and 
activity,  in  which  they  profited,  and,  later,  by  an  official  prominence 
which  they  seemed  in  one  sense  to  share. 

They  mourned  a  man  whom  they  knew,  a  man  of  honorable  aspi 
rations,  of  well-tempered  ambition,  of  ingrained  honesty,  of  stead 
fastness  to  friends,  and  incapable  of  doing  intentional  wrong  even 
to  an  enemy. 

Sainte  Genevieve  has  given  to  the  country  many  names  that  have 
been  written  high  upon  the  tablet  of  fame — names  that  the  nation 
delights  to  honor  and  will  continue  through  all  time  to  revere.  I 
have  only  time  to  recall  such  as  have  served  in  this  or  the  other 
House  of  Congress. 

Commencing  with  John  Scott,  who  for  twelve  years  was  a  Dele 
gate  and  Representative  in  this  House  from  the  Territory  and  State 
of  Missouri;  Governor  Henry  Dodge,  who  came  to  Sainte  Genevieve, 
then  the  most  prominent  settlement  of  the  new  Territory,  a  mere 
boy.  He  served  in  and  was  a  hero  of  both  the  war  of  1812  and 
the  Black  Hawk  war,  one  of  the  most  sanguinary  of  our  Indian 
conflicts.  Governor  Dodge  was  a  delegate  from  the  Territory  of 
Wisconsin,  afterward  its  governor,  and  when  largely  by  his  efforts 
the  State  was  admitted  into  the  Union  he  became  its  first  Senator, 
serving  in  that  capacity  for  nine  years. 

General  Augustus  C.  Dodge  was  also  born  in  Sainte  Genevieve. 
He  was  the  first  delegate  to  Congress  from  the  new  Territory  of 
Iowa,  its  first  Senator,  and  afterward  our  minister  to  Spain. 

Dr.  Lewis  F.  Linn,  who  came  to  Sainte  Genevieve  with  his  half- 


52  ADDRESS   OF    ME.    HATCHER   ON   THE 

brother,  Governor  Dodge,  when  but  an  infant,  and  lived  there  until 
his  death,  served  for  ten  years  as  Senator  from  Missouri,  being 
elected  the  last  time  by  the  unanimous  vote  of  her  Legislature. 

Ex-senator  George  W.  Jones,  who  emigrated  to  Sainte  Genevieve 
when  a  lad  six  years  of  age,  was  educated  with  Senator  BOGY,  and 
served  as  the  last  delegate  in  Congress  from  Michigan  Territory, 
and  was  for  twelve  years  a  Senator  from  Iowa. 

Enjoying  both  the  example  and  confidence  of  these  distinguished 
men  it  is  not  strange  that  Senator  BOGY  in  his  mere  youth  should 
determine  to  attain  to  an  eminence  as  marked  as  theirs ;  a  determina 
tion  which  with  characteristic  candor  he  committed  to  writing  and 
intrusted  to  a  mother's  kind  and  affectionate  care. 

In  this  renowned  village,  a  village  still,  but  which  at  the  date  of 
Senator  BOGY'S  birth  bid  fair  to  be  the  metropolis  of  the  great 
West,  on  the  9th  day  of  April,  1813,  our  deceased  friend  was  born. 

He  has  fought  the  good  fight,  he  has  finished  the  race,  and  we 
who  survive  him  have  assembled  to  do  honor  to  his  memory.  All 
that  is  mortal  of  him  has  been  consigned  by  loving  hands  to  the 
old  burying-ground  at  Saint  Louis,  where  he  now  rests  encircled  by 
all  but  two  of  his  children ;  but  his  example  lives  to  inspire  us  to 
worthier  purposes  and  greater  efforts.  I  do  not  claim  for  Senator 
BOGY  that  he  outranked  in  fame  and  reputation  the  distinguished 
names  I  have  recalled ;  viewed  in  the  light  of  what  he  accomplished 
it  can  hardly  be  asserted  that  he  did.  And  yet,  sir,  I  am  sure  that 
had  his  term  of  public  service  extended  over  as  long  a  period  he 
would  have  builded  a  reputation  second  to  that  of  no  other  public 
man  of  the  last  quarter  of  a  century.  His  gifts  were  not  of  a 
showy  order;  on  the  contrary,  they  were  solid,  and  of  the  highest 
value  to  his  constituency  and  the  nation  at  large. 

When  he  came  to  the  Senate  in  1873  he  was  entirely  inexpe- 


LIFE   AND   CHARACTER  OF   LEWIS   V.    BOGY.  53 

rienced  in  legislative  labors.  More  than  thirty  years  ago  he  was  for 
a  brief  period  a  member  of  his  State  assembly,  and  since  that  time 
lie  had  been  employed  almost  exclusively  in  practical  business  life ; 
and  yet,  sir,  such  was  his  facility  of  adaptation,  so  prominent  his 
sturdy  sense,  his  devotion  to  principle,  his  candor,  and  so  marked 
his  determination  and  ability  to  master  the  duties  of  his  high  posi 
tion,  that  almost  insensibly,  and  certainly  without  exciting  opposi 
tion  or  inspiring  envy,  he  steadily  grew  in  the  estimation  and  ap 
preciation  of  his  associates  until  he  became,  before  half  his  term 
had  expired,  to  be  relied  on  as  safe  guide  and  counsellor,  and  was 
intrusted  by  his  party  associates  with  the  gravest  responsibilities. 

There  was  nothing  of  accident  about  all  this.  Those  who  knew 
him  when  the  rather  unexpected  news  of  his  election  was  first  made 
known,  confidently  predicted  the  result  that  followed.  They  are 
not  less  secure  in  the  belief  that  had  his  life  been  spared  he  would 
have  steadily  advanced  to  the  first  rank  of  statesmanship. 

What  he  did  he  did  with  his  whole  heart,  might,  mind,  and 
strength.  From  the  moment  he  entered  Congress  he  devoted 
himself  exclusively  to  the  interests  of  his  constituents,  neglecting 
a  large  private  business  to  the  great  detriment  if  not  to  the  ruin  of 
his  personal  fortune.  He  knew  no  other  way.  From  the  dull 
routine  of  the  committee-rooms  or  other  arduous  duties  connected 
with  his  honorable  position  his  associates  will  testify  he  never 
attempted  to  escape. 

During  the  period  of  vacation,  when  his  friends  pleaded  with 
him  to  take  the  rest  they  felt  he  so  much  needed,  he  still  labored 
untiringly.  Through  the  entire  presidential  campaign,  although 
most  eager  to  participate  in  the  advocacy  of  principles  which  he 
felt  must  triumph  if  the  nation  was  to  live,  he  nevertheless  followed 
the  plain  path  of  duty,  spending  his  entire  vacation  in  a  laborious 


54  ADDRESS   OF   MB.    PHILLIPS   ON  THE 

examination  of  the  silver  question,  which  had  been  assigned  by  the 
Senate  to  a  mixed  commission,  of  which  he  was  made  a  member. 

Had  he  even  so  much  as  evaded  this  single  task  and  taken  an 
ocean  voyage,  as  advised  by  his  physicians,  it  is  the  opinion  of  his 
friends  that  he  would  have  been  restored  to  the  robust  health  which 
was  then  attacked  for  the  first  time  by  the  malaria  of  this  latitude. 
As  he  lived  he  died,  discharging  to  the  last,  and  with  his  best 
efforts,  the  duties  imposed  on  him.  And  when  the  summons  came, 
dreadful  to  all  but  him,  serenely  he  laid  down  the  burden  of  life 
and  passed  through  the  shadow  of  the  valley.  There  were  no  un 
manly  repinings,  no  complaints  of  opportunities  neglected,  of  wasted 
time,  of  lost  occasions.  With  a  calm  confidence  in  the  sure  reward 
that  awaited  him,  he  folded  up  the  book  of  life  and  bound  it  with 
the  golden  clasp  of  faith  in  a  glorious  immortality.  To  us  he  is 
no  more.  To  these  halls  and  to  our  councils  he  is  forevermore  a 
stranger.  The  places  that  have  known  him  once  shall  know  him 
no  more  forever.  Nothing  is  left  but  his  memory  and  example. 
Long  shall  we  of  his  native  State  cherish  the  one  and  emulate  the 
other. 


Address  of  Mr.  PHILLIPS,  of  Kansas. 

Mr.  SPEAKER  :  There  are  occasions  in  life  which,  like  the  mile 
stones  on  the  highway,  make  us  pause  to  measure  the  road  we  have 
passed,  and  to  estimate  that  which  may  be  before  us.  Death 
appeals  to  our  sensibilities  and  rebukes  our  prejudices.  Can  any 
thing  so  inevitable  be  considered  a  calamity.  There  is  no  misfor 
tune  in  death  save  when  it  snaps  in  two  what  might  have  been  a 
long  and  honorable  life.  Death  is  sometimes  attended  by  horrible 


LIFE   AND   CHARACTER   OF   LEWIS   V.    BOGY.  55 

and  appalling  circumstances,  but  there  is  nothing  in  death  or  its 
worst  surroundings  so  truly  appalling  as  a  useless,  purposeless  life. 
To-day  Congress  pauses  in  its  work ;  the  great  law-making  mill, 
grinding  nerve  and  brain,  comes  to  a  halt.  It  stops  to  pay  a  tribute 
to  a  dead  Senator ;  to  speak  of  him.  Who  was  he?  "What  was  he? 
He  represented  a  great  State,  the  neighbor  of  my  own.  Under  our 
representative  form  of  government  he  was  the  chosen  voice  for  a 
million  and  a  half  of  people.  Who  shall  say  he  was  an  inconse 
quential  thing  or  an  accident.  He  was  selected  for  something. 
That  something,  like  himself,  makes  part  of  our  history  not 
unworthy  of  the  high  place  they  held.  The  dead  Senator  of  whom 
we  speak  to-day  was  the  most  distinctive,  clear-cut  type  of  one  of 
the  most  remarkable  elements  that  have  blended  in  modern  Amer 
ican  civilization. 

Two  hundred  years  ago  a  young  Frenchman  left  the  outposts  of 
the  French  settlements  on  the  Lakes,  and  entering  the  Mississippi 
Valley  by  the  Wisconsin  River,  explored  the  father  of  waters. 
The  great  valley  lay  like  a  sealed  book  to  the  enterprise  and  genius 
of  the  European.  Long  centuries  before  ancient  civilizations  had 
made  that  valley  resound  to  their  feet.  They  had  passed  away  and 
nothing  remained  of  them  save  myth  and  legend,  and  those  vast 
mounds  where  they  worshipped  God  under  the  symbols  of  fire  and 
the  sun.  The  rains  and  storms  of  centuries  had  beat  upon  them 
but  not  washed  them  away,  and  now  great  forest  trees  clung  to 
them  as  if  to  consecrate  them  with  the  hoary  beard  of  father  Tune. 
Who  were  the  builders?  What  were  they?  Over  the  fairy  land 
scape  bands  of  wandering  nomads  roved.  Their  fathers  had  blotted 
out  an  ancient  agricultural  race  in  blood,  long,  long  ago,  and  now 
they  flitted  about  like  the  ghosts  of  better  things — Ishmaelites  who 
had  no  abiding  place  and  left  no  mark  upon  the  earth. 


56  ADDRESS   OF   MR.    PHILLIPS   ON   THE 

The  great  eye  of  a  sleepless  God  was  upon  it.  With  the  infinite 
beneficence  that  said,  "Let  there  be  light,"  he  decreed  that  once 
more  the  grandest  valley  in  all  the  world  should  be  the  home  of 
myriads  of  happy  men  and  women. 

Father  James  Marquette,  a  young  Frenchman  of  aristocratic 
family,  born  on  the  banks  of  the  Oise,  educated  in  the  bosom  of 
the  church,  devoted  to  the  society  of  Jesus  ere  he  reached  man's 
estate,  the  inspirations  of  his  mind  seem  to  have  grasped  the  genius 
and  self-sacrifice  of  Loyola.  It  is  not  necessary  to  suppose  he 
could  have  comprehended  the  great  results  of  the  forms  of  society 
of  which  he  was  the  beginning.  Cole  in  his  imaginative  paintings, 
the  voyage  of  life,  depicts  a  youth  gliding  down  the  river  of  time, 
drinking  in  the  ever  new  and  changeful  landscape  on  its  banks. 
It  is  a  dream  of  a  wonderful  voyage,  but  not  so  wonderful  as  the 
voyage  of  Marquette.  It  was  a  new  world,  and  this  was  its  first 
day.  He  glided  by  the  mouth  of  many  a  river  that  has  now  hun 
dreds  of  towns  and  cities  on  its  banks.  Then  a  deep  sleep  had 
fallen  upon  it,  deeper  than  that  which  fell  on  Adam  ere  Eve  was 
created. 

Four  centuries  before  another  adventurer  had  entered  that  valley 
from  the  lower  end.  De  Soto  had  come  with  the  pomp  and  cir 
cumstance  of  war.  His  hand  was  against  every  man,  every  man's 
hand  against  him.  He  sought  another  Peru  or  Mexico  to  rob. 
To  them  God  seemed  but  to  have  made  empires  to  be  the  victims 
of  banditti.  Discovery  was  a  better  title  than  possession.  Avarice 
was  the  main-spring,  merciless  cruelty  the  fruit.  They  came  flushed 
with  great  expectations,  and  it  took  years  of  toil,  privation,  and 
suffering  to  consume  and  destroy  those  hopes.  Broken  in  body  and 
spirit,  De  Soto  was  buried  in  the  mighty  river,  and  the  remnant  of 
his  wretched  followers  were  driven  out  of  it  by  the  men  of  Quegalto. 


LIFE  AND  CHARACTER  OF  LEWIS  V.   BOGY.  57 

Well  might  the  Indian  warriors  shout  and  sing  as  they  drove 
out  the  wretched  Spaniards !  That  victory  secured  them  from  the 
invaders  for  four  generations.  One  hundred  and  forty  years  passed 
away  ere  the  canoe  Marquette  floated  on  the  river.  He  came  in  a 
different  way.  He  stood  among  them  without  a  weapon,  the  mes 
senger  of  the  Prince  of  Peace.  He  brought  European  religion  and 
European  civilization,  and  wherever  the  foot  of  the  Frenchman 
touched  the  earth,  as  from  seed  sown,  French  settlements  sprung 
up.  He  hauled  up  his  pirogue  near  the  spot  where  the  town  of 
Sainte  Genevieve  now  stands,  and  there  of  that  race  and  stock,  the 
subject  of  these  eulogies  was  born.  LEWIS  VITAL  BOGY  was  in 
all  things  intensely  a  Frenchman,  and  yet  in  every  element  of  his 
character  as  intensely  the  western  American.  A  Frenchman  of  the 
better  class,  educated,  nervous,  active.  He  had  all  the  polished 
urbanity  of  his  race  and  the  gentleness  of  a  woman  wedded  to  the 
hardy  vigor  of  the  frontiersman.  Something  in  the  clear,  bracing 
western  atmosphere  seems  to  have  developed  a  new  type  of  man. 

The  old  French  settlements  had  two  classes,  one  of  great  intellect, 
vigor,  enterprise — the  Lacledes,  Choteaus,  Bogys,  Menards,  Vitals. 
I  need  not  enumerate;  these  represented  the  class.  Their  names 
are  marked  on  the  geography  of  the  whole  western  country.  There 
was  not  a  locality  too  remote  for  their  enterprise  and  business. 
There  was  not  a  river  or  lake  but  echoed  to  the  paddles  of  their 
batteaus.  There  was  not  an  Indian  tribe  so  hostile  or  barbarous 
that  they  were  not  familiar  with  them.  There  was  not  a  mountain 
gorge  inaccessible  to  their  genius  and  skill.  There  was  not  a  valley 
where  they  did  not  build  trading  posts  and  forts.  They  represented 
the  best  blood  of  old  France,  the  genius  and  power  of  new  France. 
They  laid  the  foundation  of  a  great  empire.  In  its  vigorous  youth 
they  did  their  full  share  in  its  sterner  battles,  and  as  the  symmetry 


58  ADDRESS   OF   MR.    PHILLIPS   ON  THE 

of  our  new  forms  of  society  assume  their  power  and  grandeur  they 
hold  their  place,  and  blend  into  a  broad  new  Americanism  with  the 
fragments  of  other  nationalities,  and  perhaps  the  last  distinct  type 
that  will  ever  enter  the  American  Congress  was  LEWIS  VITAL  BOGY. 

The  other  element  of  the  early  French  settlements  was  the  Arca 
dian  peasant.  A  mixture  of  Indian  inertia  and  French  philosophic 
simplicity.  There  was  old  Kaskaskia,  or  as  we  used  to  call  it, 
"Kasky,"  Cahoka,  Prairie  du  Rocher,  Sainte  Genevieve,  Vincennes, 
Cape  Girardeau.  Well  do  I  remember  them  all  when  a  boy.  I 
have  heard  the  old  Kaskaskians  say  that  after  Saint  Louis  was 
started  the  people  there  came  to  "Kasky"  to  buy  goods.  Ah, 
these  were  the  happy,  primitive  days.  They  cultivated  corn  in  the 
"big  field"  where  each  family  had  a  few  acres.  They  caught  wild 
ponies  on  the  point.  They  worshipped  in  a  chapel  almost  as  old  as 
Philadelphia,  when  the  bell  rang.  They  celebrated  holidays  and 
saints'  days,  and  would  observe  them  for  any  saint  kind  enough  to  give 
them  one.  Their  towns  were  not  laid  out  after  the  pattern  of  a  multi 
plication  table.  Their  lives  were  not  mathematical  problems  with 
everything  carried  and  nothing  over.  They  had  leisure.  They  were 
not  ground  in  the  mill  of  Moloch.  They  danced  in  Pewhingi  to  the 
music  of  Rafael  Mart,  and  ran  horse-races.  Their  wants  were  few, 
their  labors  light.  They  ate,  they  drank,  they  danced,  and  they  died. 

There  came  a  change.  Those  who  had  founded  hamlets  and 
villages  were  swept  away  by  those  who  founded  cities  and  great 
States.  "Kasky"  lost  the  seat  of  government,  the  county  seat. 
Even  the  sisters  fled  from  her  in  the  flood  of  1844.  The  energetic 
and  enterprising  left  for  new  centers,  and  "Kasky"  and  Cahoka 
became  rustier  than  ever,  and  existed  merely  that  antiquities  might 
be  said  to  exist  in  the  country. 

Mr.  BOGY'S  father  was  born  in  Kaskaskia,  but  moved  to  the 


LIFE  AND  CHARACTER  OF  LEWIS  V.   BOGY.  59 

town  of  Sainte  Genevieve,  which  is  just  a  few  miles  distant  over 
the  river.  In  1766  the  left  bank  of  the  Mississippi  was  ceded  by 
France  to  Britain,  and  in  the  war  of  the  Revolution  came  to  the 
United  States.  The  Spaniards  held  the  country  beyond  the  right 
bank.  The  elder  Bogy  was  connected  with  the  most  enterprising 
families  in  both  towns  and  held  responsible  positions  under  the 
Spanish  government.  In  1813  LEWIS  VITAL  BOGY  was  born. 
In  early  life  he  indicated  the  thrift  and  energy  which  marked  his 
whole  career  and  which  are  so  sadly  lacking  in  the  youth  of  the 
present  day.  He  began  life  clerking  in  a  store  at  a  salary  of  $200 
a  year.  Then  he  went  to  study  law  with  old  Judge  Pope,  in  Kas- 
kaskia.  He  came  of  a  stock  that  might  well  have  been  excused  for 
putting  on  airs.  Did  he  merely  loaf  around  a  lawyer's  office  under 
pretense  of  reading  law?  Old  Judge  Pope  had  a  coal-bank  on 
Mary's  River,  a  dozen  miles  or  more  from  Kaskaskia.  There  the 
young  BOGY  went  part  of  his  time,  superintending  the  miners  and 
reading  the  books  selected  by  the  judge.  It  was  ride  and  tie 
between  Sisyphus  and  Blackstone.  I  wish  the  young  men  of  to 
day  would  remember  these  lessons.  The  man  who  starts  business 
in  that  way  is  very  liable  to  succeed.  Afterward  he  attended  the 
law  school  at  Lexington,  Kentucky. 

Entering  his  career  at  man's  estate  he  cast  his  fortune  in  Saint 
Louis.  He  was  closely  identified  with  its  struggles,  growth,  pros 
perity.  Nor  did  he  limit  his  work  to  the  city.  He  did  more  than 
any  other  man  to  develop  the  mineral  resources  of  Missouri,  and 
for  these  she  is  chiefly  famous.  He  expended  nearly  a  million  of 
dollars  in  building  the  Iron  Mountain  Railroad.  He  helped  build 
his  State,  and  it  was  fitting  he  should  represent  her.  He  carried 
to  public  position  what  he  had  shown  in  private  life:  business 
habits  and  a  carefully  trained  legal  mind. 


60  ADDRESS   OF   MR.    PHILLIPS   ON  THE 

Since  my  boyhood  I  have  watched  all  the  great  development  of 
the  Mississippi  Valley.  In  Saint  Louis,  not  long  ago,  I  left  my 
hotel  to  walk  out  on  the  bridge,  that  grandest  monument  of  human 
genius.  Its  foundations  are  a  hundred  feet  deep  in  the  channel  of 
the  river.  Grand  in  its  strength,  beautiful  in  its  symmetry,  lifted 
heavenward  above  the  mighty  flood,  as  I  stood  and  looked  from  its 
summit 

Visions  of  things  that  have  long  since  fled 
Went  over  my  brain  like  ghosts  of  the  dead. 

I  remembered  when  a  boy  I  entered  that  city  almost  forty  years 
ago.  Then  when  you  got  to  Fourth  and  Fifth  streets  you  came  to 
bushes,  and  Choteau's  pond  was  before  you.  Now  I  looked  over  that 
great  city  throbbing  with  the  mighty  struggle  of  commercial  life. 
Then  I  remembered  there  was  not  a  railroad  in  that  country,  and 
that  we  struggled  in  through  a  mud  unparalleled  beyond  the  Amer 
ican  bottom.  Now  the  trains  thundered  in  on  twenty  railroads,  and 
made  everything  quiver  as  they  swept  over  the  great  bridge.  Away 
down  the  river  lay  the  fleets  of  vessels  and  barges.  The  banks  were 
environed  by  elevators,  warehouses,  wharves.  Who  planted  and 
reared  this  commerce?  Who  built  this  city?  Who  developed  this 
power  and  empire  in  the  Mississippi  Valley  of  which  that  city  is  the 
signet  seal?  Who  were  they?  What  were  they? 

My  mind  was  carried  back  to  the  primitive  days  of  old  Cahoka 
and  Kaskaskia ;  to  the  time  when  the  men  of  Saint  Louis  went  there 
to  buy  goods;  back  to  the  time  when  the  scattered  French  settle 
ments  were  all  there  was  of  European  civilization  in  the  Mississippi 
Valley;  back,  back,  until  I  could  almost  fancy  I  saw  the  skiff  of 
Marquette  floating  down  the  river. 

Is  there  value  in  retrospect?  We  clutch  these  fragments  close  to 
us  while  we  breathe  a  prayer  for  the  future  of  our  country  and  mur- 


LIFE   AND   CHARACTER   OF   LEWIS   V.    BOGY.  61 

mur :  "  Yesterday,  to-day,  and  forever."  Over  the  graves  of  the  emi 
nent  dead,  of  whom  these  works  are  but  the  handwriting,  we  pause 
to  think.  My  own  State  had  its  troubles  with  Missouri  in  their  time, 
and  I  am  too  proud  of  that  history  to  shed  any  tears  on  it;  but,  the 
past  redeemed  and  sanctified,  we  stand  by  the  grave  to  admire  and 
sorrow  with  our  sister  State.  Gratified  at  her  prosperity,  emulous 
of  her  enterprise,  I  for  Kansas  lay  a  chaplet  of  friendship  and 
esteem  on  the  grave  of  LEWIS  VITAL  BOGY. 


Address  of  Mr.  KNOTT,  of  Kentucky. 

A  variety  of  circumstances,  Mr.  Speaker,  seems  to  render  it 
peculiarly  appropriate  that  I  should  avail  myself  of  the  present 
mournful  occasion  to  pay  a  brief  but  just  tribute  to  the  memory  of 
the  patriot  and  statesmen  whose  public  services  we  would  gratefully 
commemorate  and  whose  private  virtues  we  would  embalm  forever 
in  the  records  of  our  country  for  the  benefit  of  those  who  are  to 
succeed  us  here  when  we  too  shall  have  gone  to  that  undiscovered 
country  from  whose  bourne  no  traveler  returns.  He  was  not  only 
a  native  of  the  State  within  whose  borders,  a  friendless  wanderer,  I 
stepped  upon  the  threshold  of  manhood,  and  whose  generous  people 
I  will  remember  with  gratitude  and  affection  as  long  as  the  vital 
current  animates  this  frame,  but  as  the  well-earned  reward  for  a  long 
and  busy  career  of  usefulness  in  her  service,  his  brow  was  crowned 
with  her  brightest  honors  when  touched  by  the  icy  finger  of  death. 

And  more  than  this,  it  was  in  my  own  native  State  and  among 
those  who  have  repeatedly  honored  me  with  a  seat  on  this  floor  that 
he  fixed  the  finishing  links  in  his  armor  and  entered  upon  that 
long  and  honorable  career  of  which  you  have  already  been  told  so 


62  ADDKESS   OF   MR.    KNOTT   ON   THE 

eloquently  and  so  truthfully  by  his  colleagues  who  have  preceded  me. 
But  more  than  all,  "he  was  my  friend,  faithful  and  just  to  me." 

My  personal  acquaintance  with  Mr.  BOGY  commenced  over 
twenty  years  ago,  and  although  the  relations  between  us  from  that 
time  to  the  hour  of  his  death  were  of  the  most  kind  and  cordial 
nature,  what  I  would  here  record  concerning  the  more  distinguish 
ing  traits  in  his  character  shall  be  freed  as  far  as  possible  from  the 
tinge  of  partial  friendship,  for  I  know  that  even  the  voice  of  affec 
tion  cannot  "soothe  the  dull,  cold  ear  of  death,"  and  I  would  scorn 
to  mock  the  memory  of  my  friend  with  the  language  of  fulsome 
adulation  which  if  living  he  would  despise. 

The  most  striking  feature  in  the  character  of  Mr.  BOGY,  the  one 
which  more  than  all  others  distinguished  him  in  his  public  and  pri 
vate  relations  in  life,  the  one  indeed  which  furnishes  the  key  to  his 
remarkably  successful  career,  was  his  earnest,  active,  unfaltering 
fealty  to  duty.  "Whether  as  the  school-teacher  in  the  quiet  shades 
of  a  rural  district  in  Kentucky  or  the  busy  lawyer  in  the  teeming 
metropolis  of  his  native  State ;  whether  as  member  of  the  common 
council  of  Saint  Louis  or  of  the  Senate  of  the  United  States,  what 
ever  duty  demanded  at  his  hands  he  set  himself  about  with  all  the 
energy  of  his  nature  and  all  the  powers  of  his  mind. 

If  duty  called  him  to  defend  his  conscientious  convictions  of  truth 
and  right,  whether  on  the  hustings  or  in  the  halls  of  legislation, 
whatever  was  the  sacrifice  to  himself,  whether  triumph  lured  him 
with  its  fascinating  laurels  or  defeat  stared  him  sternly  in  the  face, 
whatever  of  time  or  money  or  honest  effort  it  might  cost,  he  flung 
himself  boldly  into  the  arena  and  bore  himself  bravely  and  gallantly 
in  the  contest. 

This  unwavering  fealty  to  duty  resulted  no  doubt  from  the  ardent, 
impulsive,  generous  disposition  for  which  he  was  peculiarly  conspic- 


LIFE   AND   CHAEACTER   OF   LEWIS   V.    BOGY.  63 

uous,  coupled  with  an  exquisite  sense  of  honor  which,  influenced  by 
a  careful  religious  education,  kept  his  conscience  ever  singularly 
sensitive  to  the  various  obligations  imposed  by  his  public  and  pri 
vate  associations. 

The  same  ardent  and  impulsive  temperament,  while  it  imparted 
the  warm  glow  of  devoted  affection  to  his  domestic  relations, 
made  him  the  earnest,  active,  enthusiastic  friend,  the  enterprising, 
public-spirited  citizen,  proud  of  the  grandeur  and  devoted  to  the 
progress  of  his  native  State,  and  the  Senator  whose  patriotism  com 
prehended  the  interests  and  aspired  to  promote  the  prosperity  of  the 
entire  country. 

He  died  as  he  had  lived,  a  faithful,  conscientious,  consistent 
member  of  the  Catholic  Church,  without  a  single  stain  upon  his 
escutcheon  as  a  dutiful  son,  an  affectionate  husband,  a  kind  and 
indulgent  father,  a  faithful  friend,  a  generous  neighbor,  a  good 
citizen,  a  devoted  patriot,  an  unsullied  statesman,  an  honest  man, 
and  a  Christian  gentleman. 


Address  of  Mr.  SPARKS,  of  Illinois. 

Mr.  SPEAKER:  When  men  die  who  were  dignified  by  high  trusts 
involving  great  responsibilities  to  the  public,  it  is  eminently  fitting 
that  our  eulogies  upon  them  should  be  marked  by  a  spirit  of  sincerity 
and  truthfulness.  And  if  there  were  no  elements  of  character  pos 
sessed  by  them  to  arrest  attention  and  command  commendation,  it 
were  better  that  they  should  be  protected  by  the  charitable  shield 
of  silence. 

Responding  cordially  to  this  sentiment  and  governed  by  a  conscien 
tious  responsibility  for  my  utterances,  I  deem  it  a  duty  to  speak  in 


64  ADDRESS   OF   MR.   SPARKS   ON   THE 

eulogy  of  the  life  and  character  of  the  deceased  Senator,  in  respect 
for  whose  memory  the  resolutions  now  before  us  were  offered. 

I  knew  him  for  several  years  quite  well,  and  know  sufficient  of 
his  early  life  and  peculiar  characteristics  to  speak  with  some  confi 
dence  of  the  influences  that  developed  his  active  and  eventful  man 
hood. 

He  was  a  descendant  of  Illinois  ancestors.  Of  him  we  have  the 
somewhat  astonishing  announcement  to  make  that  he,  a  man  of  sixty- 
five  years  of  age,  was  the  son  of  native-born  Illinois  parents. 

Senator  BOGY,  according  to  my  estimate  of  him,  was  not  by  nature 
a  great  genius,  nor  was  he  what  is  popularly  denominated  a  brilliant 
or  highly  cultivated  man,  and,  in  my  judgment,  to  attribute  these 
qualities  to  him  would  be  not  only  untruthful  but  do  injustice  to 
his  memory. 

He  was  a  western  man,  and  possessed  in  a  high  degree  the  peculiar 
characteristics  of  a  pioneer  civilization.  Born  and  reared  in  the 
midst  of  the  unbroken  wilderness,  he  was  characterized  by  a  rugged, 
fearless  nature  that  marked  him  in  every  stage  of  life  and  in  every 
pursuit  in  which  he  engaged  as  a  strong,  bold,  and  aggressive  actor. 

Such  a  man  could  not  be  confined  to  precise  technical  formulas  nor 
brought  within  the  range  of  severe  methodical  rules.  But  in  that 
strength  and  courage  that  grasp  and  solve  great  practical  questions 
of  a  public  or  private  character,  there  were  few  men  in  this  country 
his  equal. 

In  the  judgment  of  those  most  intimately  acquainted  with  him 
and  of  those  who  cherish  his  memory  most  fondly  his  character  was 
marked  mainly  by  three  distinguishing  qualities :  courage,  integrity, 
and  Christian  faith. 

As  to  his  courage,  no  man  who  ever  looked  into  his  eye  and  caught 
a  gleam  of  its  firm  and  fixed  determination  could  doubt  that  its  pos- 


LIFE   AND   CHARACTER   OF   LEWIS   V.    BOGY.  65 

scssor  was  a  man  strong  in  purpose  and  fearless  in  execution,  one 
whose  objects  sustained  by  conscientious  convictions  would  be  as 
serted  with  a  resolution  and  intrepidity  that  no  ordinary  obstruc 
tions  could  defeat. 

His  integrity  is  written  upon  every  page  of  a  long  life  illustrated 
by  prominent  public  action  and  varied  and  important  business  enter 
prises,  during  the  whole  course  of  which,  in  the  language  of  his  suc 
cessor  in  the  Senate,  who  had  known  him  intimately  for  more  than 
a  third  of  a  century,  "  his  personal  integrity  and  high  sense  of  honor 
were  never  questioned." 

Senator  BOGY  was  also  a  man  of  deep  and  earnest  convictions,  and 
these  convictions,  always  formed  cautiously  and  with  painstaking 
care,  became  to  him  fixed  and  lasting  rules  of  action. 

In  this  connection  I  propose  briefly  to  speak  of  his  Christian  faith. 
His  family  were  of  French  origin,  and  all  of  them  of  the  Roman 
Catholic  religion.  It  was,  therefore,  his  inherited  faith.  Baptized 
in  infancy  by  a  priest  of  that  church  and  nurtured  carefully  in  child 
hood  by  a  devout  and  pious  mother,  he  became  ardently  devoted  to 
it.  In  fact,  it  was  in  his  religion  more  strongly  than  elsewhere  that 
we  have  a  striking  proof  of  his  strong,  inflexible  nature.  To  it  he 
clung  with  an  unyielding  tenacity  and  a  sincere  and  ardent  devotion 
through  the  whole  course  of  a  busy  and  eventful  life.  Tolerant  always 
of  the  opinions  of  others  on  all  subjects,  the  special  advocate  of  an 
unlimited  religious  toleration,  and  in  all  things  fully  up  to  the  pro 
gressive  age  in  which  he  lived,  for  himself  he  demanded,  as  a  Christian 
man,  the  right  to  worship  God  according  to  his  own  conscience ;  and 
in  the  exercise  of  that  right  he  sought  his  spiritual  guide  in  the 
communion  of  the  church  that  represented  the  faith  of  his  ancestors. 
To  him  a  reformation  that  attacked  the  dogmas  of  faith  of  the 
universal  church  was  a  revolution,  which,  however  kindly  his 


66  ADDRESS   OP   ME.    SPARKS   ON   THE 

sympathies  might  be  extended  toward  the  sincere  and  pious  men 
who  proclaimed  it,  was  a  source  of  division  and  discord,  fruitful 
only  of  disorganizing  and  disintegrating  influences. 

To  him  the  church  of  his  fathers  was  really  and  truly  a  "  rule  and 
guide  of  faith,"  and  a  refuge  secure  and  safe  from  the  storms  of 
rival  contentions  and  of  angry  disputations.  To  him  it  was  the  ampli 
fication  and  ever-existing  representatives  of  the  faith  of  the  small 
circle  of  humble  followers  who  stood  around  the  Great  Master  on 
the  borders  of  the  Sea  of  Galilee  and  received  from  His  divine  lips 
the  exalted  Christian  commission  of  unity,  sanctity,  apostolicity,  and 
catholicity. 

To  a  man  possessed  of  a  moral  courage  like  his  and  with  convic 
tions  such  as  these,  angry  protestations  and  sneering  denials  were 
each  and  all  alike  unavailing. 

Sir,  this  is  not  a  fitting  place  nor  appropriate  occasion  to  enter 
the  field  of  religious  controversy  to  determine  whether  his  faith  was 
wisely  or  unwisely  founded ;  but  I  submit,  with  much  confidence 
in  the  favorable  judgment  of  the  good  men  of  every  creed,  that  its 
sincerity  and  ardent  zeal  demand  the  highest  admiration. 

Mr.  Speaker,  I  am  quite  sure  that  it  would  be  a  consolation  to 
us  if  we  could  now  know  that,  when  the  deep  shadows  of  death 
shall  have  obscured  us,  kind  friends  could  then  truthfully  say  that 
in  life  we  possessed  that  courage  that  never  quailed  in  human  pres 
ence;  that,  panoplied  in  the  strength  of  an  honest  manhood,  we 
always  asserted  and  maintained  a  fearless  and  undaunted  equality ; 
but  that,  in  the  presence  of  the  Great  Judge,  with  head  uncovered 
and  heart  deeply  humbled,  we  yielded  ever  the  obedience  and  devo 
tion  of  little  children. 

Sir,  we  would  like,  when  that  solemn  hour  comes,  that  it  could 
be  truthfully  said  of  us  that,  with  an  unwavering  faith  and  a  trust 


LIFE  AND  CHARACTER  OF  LEWIS  V.  BOGY.        67 

and  confidence  that  no  storms  could  shake,  we  embarked  on  the 
mystic  river  without  a  doubt  and  without  a  fear  as  to  the  bright 
harbor  to  be  reached  on  its  unseen  shore  beyond. 

I  feel,  sir,  on  this  occasion  and  in  this  presence,  that  so  far  as 
human  knowledge  extends,  I  am  warranted  in  saying  this  of  Sen 
ator  BOGY. 


Address  of  Mr.  THROCKMORTON,  of  Texas. 

Mr.  SPEAKER:  As  a  friend  of  the  lamented  Senator  whose  death 
we  this  day  deplore,  I  propose  to  contribute  something  that  may 
serve,  in  a  slight  degree,  to  perpetuate  in  the  memory  of  those  who 
are  to  come  after  us  the  high  qualities  of  head  and  heart  possessed 
by  that  good  and  amiable  man. 

As  the  executive  of  Texas  during  a  period  of  the  deepest  gloom 
and  humiliation  of  the  people,  it  became  my  duty  to  open  a  corre 
spondence  with  the  national  authorities  relative  to  the  Indians  on  the 
borders  of  that  State ;  that  correspondence  touching  not  only  the 
conduct  of  the  wild  tribes  then  making  war  on  our  people,  but  also 
the  condition  of  small  bands  who  had  never  lifted  their  hands 
against  the  white  race  of  the  country,  but  who  had  by  their  long 
and  sturdy  friendship  for  the  white  people  provoked  and  brought 
upon  themselves  the  hatred  and  deadly  enmity  of  the  hostile  tribes. 

Senator  BOGY  was  at  that  time  Commissioner  of  Indian  Affairs, 
and  through  my  correspondence  with  him  my  first  acquaintance 
was  formed  and  my  first  conception  of  his  high  qualities  of  charac 
ter  derived. 

The  position  held  was  one  of  grave  responsibility,  and  its  duties 
then,  as  now,  were  both  delicate  and  difficult.  The  officer  charged 
with  the  supervision  of  the  relations  existing  between  the  Govern- 


G8  ADDRESS   OF   MR.   THROCKMORTON   ON   THE 

rnent  and  the  people  of  the  United  States  and  the  aboriginal  nations 
of  the  country,  embracing  in  the  aggregate  three  hundred  thousand 
souls,  distributed  into  a  great  number  of  tribes  and  scattered  along 
a  border  extending  from  Texas  to  Alaska  and  covering  an  area  of 
many  thousands  of  miles,  should  be  possessed  of  the  highest  order 
of  administrative  ability,  coupled  with  a  humane  heart  and  a  mind 
of  rare  discrimination.  Such  characteristics  I  believe  belonged  to 
Senator  BOGY  in  an  eminent  degree. 

The  partial  acquaintance  formed  under  the  circumstances  to  which 
I  have  referred  was  renewed  and  ripened  when  we  subsequently  met 
in  these  halls,  he  as  a  Senator  and  I  as  a  Representative  of  our  re 
spective  States. 

The  favorable  estimate  originally  formed  of  his  character  was 
strengthened  and  confirmed  by  subsequent  personal  intercourse  and 
by  a  somewhat  close  observation  of  his  career  as  a  public  man. 

He  exhibited  the  same  fullness  and  thoroughness  of  information 
upon  public  affairs,  the  same  healthful,  sober  judgment  of  public 
measures,  the  same  appreciation  of  the  wants  of  the  country  and 
tender  consideration  of  the  claims  of  humanity,  and  the  same  reso 
lute  and  independent  discharge  of  the  duties  of  public  trust  that  I 
had  before  ascribed  to  him. 

In  no  one  degree  was  I  disappointed,  but  the  estimate  I  had 
formed  of  his  character  was  heightened  by  a  personal  acquaintance. 

Senator  BOGY  did  not  dazzle  the  country  with  his  eloquence,  nor 
attract  attention  to  himself  by  sensational  utterances  or  startling 
departures  from  the  methods  of  the  fathers,  but  he  did  impress  upon 
the  popular  mind  broad,  generous, and  humane  views;  did  enlighten 
counsel,  stimulate  hope,  and  inspire  confidence  in  the  fortunes  of  the 
Republic  by  the  brave,  patient,  and  hopeful  spirit  that  marked  his 
public  life. 


LIFE   AXD   CHARACTER   OF   LEWIS   V.    BOGY.  69 

As  a  public  man  he  was  fully  alive  to  the  wants  of  his  own  State, 
considerate  and  thoughtful  of  the  necessities  of  the  great  West,  an 
ardent  advocate  of  liberal  measures  on  the  part  of  the  General  Gov 
ernment  calculated  to  promote  the  commerce  of  the  Mississippi  Val 
ley,  and  warmly  advocating  such  action  on  the  part  of  the  Govern 
ment  as  would  insure  a  speedy  connection  by  means  of  railways 
between  the  Mississippi  River  and  the  distant  States  and  Territories 
of  the  Government.  But,  ardent  as  he  was  in  favor  of  measures 
promotive  of  the  interests  of  his  own  immediate  section,  his  patriot 
ism  and  statesmanship  were  broad  and  liberal  enough  to  embrace 
every  section  of  our  country. 

He  was  tenacious  of  his  views,  earnest  in  the  advocacy  of  what 
he  believed  to  be  right,  and  energetic  in  whatever  he  undertook 
to  accomplish. 

Senator  BOGY  was  honest  and  capable.  In  his  death  the  National 
Legislature  has  lost  one  of  its  most  industrious  and  useful  members 
and  the  country  a  citizen  of  the  loftiest  character,  whose  intelligent 
and  conscientious  discharge  of  duty  entitles  him  to  the  love  and 
respect  of  his  countrymen. 


Address  of  Mr.   CLARK,  of  Missouri. 

Mr.  SPEAKER:  I  should  be  unmindful  of  the  strong  promptings 
of  love  for  a  dead  friend  and  indifferent  to  the  duty  I  owe  to  the 
State  which  honored  Senator  BOGY  with  its  highest  trust,  if  I  did 
not  avail  myself  of  the  privilege  of  this  occasion  to  testify  my 
appreciation  of  his  private  worth  and  public  virtues. 

Senator  BOGY  was  a  native  Missourian,  having  been  born  at  the 
French  town  of  Sainte  Genevieve  in  the  year  1813,  seven  years 


70  ADDRESS   OF   MR.   CLARK   ON   THE 

before  the  admission  of  the  State  of  Missouri  into  the  Union.  He 
came  of  ancestors  who  settled  in  the  far  West  more  than  a  hundred 
years  ago.  While  he  was  denied  the  opportunity  and  advantage 
of  early  intellectual  training,  he  inherited  that  bold,  self-reliant, 
and  aspiring  manhood  which  so  distinguished  those  daring  voyageurs 
who  conquered  the  great  West  from  savage  dominion  and  gave  it  to 
this  generation  to  refine  and  build  up  into  the  wondrous  civilization 
which  the  Mississippi  Valley  presents  to-day. 

From  this  rude  and  unpromising  beginning  he  began  his  life- 
work  with  the  energy  and  hopefulness  of  one  who  aspires  to  great 
achievements.  When  a  boy  he  commenced  the  rigid  system  of  self- 
culture  and  discipline  which  expanded  a  mind  naturally  strong  so 
that  he  attained  in  early  manhood  a  breadth  and  comprehensiveness 
of  mind  which  made  him  a  marked  man  in  the  political  struggles 
of  his  State  and  gave  promise  of  his  future  eminence.  He  was 
ambitious  to  be  of  service  to  his  country  but  never  a  place-hunter, 
and  was  frequently  chosen  by  his  political  friends  to  lead  the  forlorn 
hope  of  certain  defeat,  on  which  occasions  he  came  to  the  front  of 
battle  upholding  the  banner  of  his  party  with  a  firmness  and  gal 
lantry  of  the  trained  veteran.  He  was  unusually  active  in  his 
temperament,  and  took  a  deep  interest  in  all  that  concerned  his 
State,  ever  on  the  alert  to  defeat  a  policy  which  menaced  the  inter 
ests  of  his  constituents  and  unflinching  in  his  zeal  in  the  advocacy 
of  all  great  measures  which  promised  the  development  of  industrial 
enterprise. 

While  he  was  full  of  that  sweet  charity  which  made  him  tolerant 
of  the  opinions  of  others,  always  treating  a  political  opponent  with 
the  most  refined  and  princely  courtesy,  he  was  lion-like  in  his  cour 
age  and  firm  as  the  rock  in  the  conviction  that  the  fundamental 
principles  of  his  party  were  the  perfection  of  republican  govern- 


LIFE   AND   CHARACTER   OF   LEWIS  V.    BOGY.  71 

ment,  always  finding  him  their  consistent  and  uncompromising  ad 
herent — not  the  blind  and  blatant  adherence  of  the  demagogue,  but 
the  earnest,  conscientious  follower  of  the  convictions  of  his  judg 
ment.  As  in  private  life  he  acknowledged  no  higher  law  than 
devotion  to  duty,  in  political  action  he  knew  no  higher  law  than 
the  Constitution  of  his  country,  and  sought  only  to  satisfy  his 
ambition  by  a  faithful  and  laborious  discharge  of  the  trusts  con 
fided  to  his  keeping.  Hence  his  views  of  public  policy  were  gen 
erous,  broad,  and  statesmanlike,  looking  to  the  good  of  his  whole 
country  rather  than  to  classes  and  sections. 

He  was  not  a  finished  speaker,  but  a  rare  and  fascinating  talker, 
and  never  failed  to  impress  his  views,  both  in  conversation  and  de 
bate,  with  marked  originality  and  force.  With  these  characteristics 
he  justly  earned  a  national  reputation  during  his  short  career  in  the 
United  States  Senate  as  an  able  and  conscientious  representative  of 
his  State. 

But  as  his  public  life  and  acts  have  been  fully  treated  of  by  dis 
tinguished  gentlemen  who  have  preceded  me,  I  turn  from  that  field 
to  the  more  inviting  and  congenial  theme  of  his  private  and  social 
virtues,  for  it  is  with  these  that  our  dead  friend  is  especially  em 
balmed  in  our  memory.  It  is  a  task  of  love  to  speak  of  him  as  a 
friend,  as  a  companion  as  well  as  a  teacher  and  inspirer  of  laudable 
ambitions  of  his  young  associates,  as  the  substantial  friend  of  the 
weak  and  defenceless,  the  helper  of  the  helpless,  and  as  one  of  God's 
almoners  of  all  the  sweet  charities  of  life. 

Few  can  miss  the  light  of  his  presence  and  his  unobtrusive  coun 
sel  more  than  myself,  who  had  learned  not  only  to  honor  the  sin 
cerity  of  his  purpose,  his  unswerving  integrity,  his  fidelity  to  friends 
and  convictions,  but  to  love  and  revere  him  for  his  sweet  amiability 
of  character,  his  goodness  of  heart,  his  unaifected  piety,  in  short 


72  ADDRESS   OF    MR.    CLARK    ON   THE 

for  all  those  qualities  which  rescue  human  nature  from  the  sneers 
of  the  bad  and  cynical.  He  was  a  Missourian,  proud  of  the  State 
of  his  nativity  and  I  justly  proud  of  its  confidence  in  him,  always 
turning  with  a  lover's  eyes  to  the  friends  who  had  lifted  him  from 
obscurity  to  the  highest  honors  in  their  gift.  He  had  a  keen  sense 
of  honor,  with  a  sovereign  and  unfeigning  contempt  for  all  that 
was  little  and  mean,  and  in  the  fearless  loyalty  of  his  heart  never 
deserted  a  friend. 

But  it  was  with  the  home-bred  charities  of  the  heart,  in  the  sweet 
retiracy  of  domestic  endearments,  that  our  friend's  character  chiefly 
claims  our  admiration,  always  returning  with  ever-increasing  relish 
to  the  delights  and  enjoyments  of  that  sacred  penetralia  where 
loving  wife  and  children  pined  for  his  return. 

When  from  his  stricken  associate  at  Bichmond,  Indiana,  there 
reached  him  in  the  last  days  of  his  tenancy  of  a  sorely-racked  body 
a  telegraphic  message  expressing  solicitude  to  learn  that  he  was  im 
proving,  his  eye  lighted  up  with  a  smile  of  forgiveness  and  sympa 
thy  as  he  dictated  an  assuring  response.  Both,  as  it  were,  clasping 
forgiving  hands  on  the  borders  of  the  unknown,  have  passed  out 
to  the  pale  realms  from  which  we  receive  no  responses,  no  tidings. 
The  one,  almost  for  a  life-time  in  the  forefront  of  battle,  has  been 
extravagantly  praised  and  censoriously  censured.  The  other,  enter 
ing  official  life  but  a  few  years  ago,  had  but  just  begun  to  fulfill 
the  expectancy  of  watchful  friends. 

Opportunity,  the  handmaid  of  renown,  had  waited  upon  the  one, 
and  it  was  the  belief  of  friends  who  knew  Senator  BOGY  well  in 
that  greatest  of  arenas,  the  Senate,  he  would  have  found  his  oppor 
tunity,  had  he  been  spared  longer  for  the  battle.  Missouri  may 
send  men  of  equal  or  greater  ability  to  that  august  body  to  which 
she  has  accredited  a  Bcnton,  a  Green,  a  Linn,  and  a  Geyer,  but  she 


LIFE   AND   CHARACTER   OP   LEWIS   V.    BOGY.  73 

will  never  place  there  a  man  of  purer  purpose,  of  a  more  exalted 
conception  of  his  duties  and  responsibilities  as  a  representative,  of  a 
more  unbending  integrity  or  unflinching  patriotism  than  he  whose 
loss  we  deplore,  and  whose  memory  we  now  commemorate. 


Address  of  Mr.   ELLIS,  of  Louisiana. 

Mr.  SPEAKER  :  The  lateness  of  the  hour  and  the  knowledge  that 
others  who  perhaps  can  speak  more  intelligently  than  myself  of  the 
virtues  of  the  illustrious  dead  are  to  follow  me  warns  me  that  I 
must  be  brief.  These  virtues  have  been  recited  by  tongues  far  more 
eloquent  than  mine.  Missouri  has  come,  and  from  the  lips  of  her 
distinguished  sons,  who  so  well  represent  her  honor  and  her  inter 
est,  has  voiced  the  great  woe  she  feels  as  she  stands  to-day  above 
the  open-mouthed  grave  of  her  illustrious  son.  Other  common 
wealths  have  come,  neighboring  commonwealths,  represented  by 
those  who  knew  the  illustrious  Senator  better  than  myself  and  have 
spoken  of  him  words  that  I  wish  I  might  as  fittingly  speak.  But 
I  do  not  deem  it  inappropriate  that  the  voice  of  Louisiana  should 
swell  this  funeral  cry  that  goes  up  to-day,  and  that  her  tears  should 
mingle  with  those  that  are  falling  upon  this  bier,  for  I  do  remember, 
sir,  that  when  she  was  voiceless  and  silent  here,  when  she  was  mis 
represented  at  the  other  end  of  the  Capitol,  that  Senator  BOGY,  in 
the  hour  of  her  peril  and  her  trial,  held  with  well-nerved  arm  the 
segis  of  the  Constitution  above  her  stricken  form  and  spoke  brave 
and  great  words  for  her  disenthrallment  and  for  her  peace. 

Mr.  Speaker,  it  was  not  my  fortune  to  have  known  Senator 
BOGY  intimately.  When  I  came  here  to  take  my  seat  among  the 
humblest  of  the  members  of  the  Forty-fourth  Congress  I  met  him 
and  had  that  casual  acquaintance  with  him  which  the  members  of 


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74  ADDRESS   OF   MR.    ELLIS   ON   THE 

the  respective  branches  of  Congress  often  have  where  no  particular 
business  interests  or  social  opportunities  bring  them  together  closely. 
It  was  not  until  the  unpleasant  prominence  into  which  my  State 
was  forced  by  her  peculiar  relations  to  the  electoral  count  and  to  all 
the  exciting  questions  growing  out  of  the  last  Presidential  election, 
and  when  Senator  BOGY  appealed  to  me  for  some  knowledge  of  her 
laws  and  statutes  that  I  knew  him  well. 

Afterward  a  measure  of  great  importance  to  the  entire  Missis 
sippi  Valley  drew  us  together,  and  it  was  then  that  I  learned  to 
measure  him  and  to  appreciate  him.  As  briefly  as  I  can,  Mr. 
Speaker,  I  propose  to  utter  now  my  estimation  of  him.  As  a  man 
I  found  him  frank,  brave,  and  truthful.  He  was  brave  enough  to 
stand  alone  when  he  believed  he  was  right.  When  his  convic 
tions  and  his  judgments  combined  told  him  that  he  was  right  he 
never  counted  friends,  neither  did  he  number  his  opposing  foes. 

I  found  him  ever  honest.  I  discovered  that  perhaps  from  his 
origin  and  because  of  the  stirring  pioneer  scenes  and  associations  of 
his  early  life,  there  was  in  him  that  rugged  honesty  which  never 
would  bend  to  the  suple  requirements  of  this  late  day.  I  saw,  too, 
the  grand  and  salient  features  of  that  Spartan  integrity  which  never 
could  be  effaced  or  toned  down  from  their  original  proportions. 

Born  of  French  ancestry  he  was  ardent,  impulsive,  warm-hearted, 
and  enthusiastic;  quick  to  resent  an  injury,  and  yet  ever  ready  to 
forgive  when  the  amende  was  made.  I  found  him  always  ready  to 
extend  the  hand  of  friendship  and  kindness  to  the  younger  members 
of  this  House  who  gathered  about  him,  and  I  was  indebted  to  him 
more  than  once  for  much  of  friendly  counsel  and  advice  with 
regard  to  my  own  course. 

The  virtues  of  Senator  BOGY,  as  son,  as  husband,  and  as  father, 
have  been  spoken  of  here.  There  is  one  noble  and  beautiful  trait 


LIFE   AND   CHARACTER   OF   LEWIS   V.    BOGY.  75 

of  his  character  which  it  is  well  for  us  all  to  recall  and  to  remem 
ber  ;  that  which  was  so  eloquently  and  beautifully  alluded  to  by  my 
friend  from  North  Carolina,  [Mr.  Waddell,]  who  has  already 
spoken.  It  was  his  love  for  his  mother.  Mr.  Speaker,  it  too  often 
happens  that  we,  especially  when  fortune  and  fame  smile  upon  us, 
are  apt  to  forget  her  who  gave  us  birth,  or  to  think  lightly  and 
carelessly  of  that  beautiful  dream  of  our  childhood ;  to  be  unmindful 
of  that  love  which  follows  us  everywhere,  which  smiles  when  we 
smile,  which  weeps  when  we  weep,  which  comes  to  us  when  sorrow, 
misfortune,  even  when  guilt  or  shame  may  overtake  us ;  which 
wraps  us  in  the  immortal  mantle  of  her  affection,  seeing  only  her 
child,  refusing  to  believe  the  appearance  or  even  the  proof  of  guilt. 
Or  if  we  do  not  forget,  we  remember  only  when  the  world  has 
grown  so  dark  and  life  so  weary,  when  there  come  memories  of 
misspent  hours,  of  wasted  time,  of  neglected  opportunities,  when 
innocence  and  youth  seems  so  far  away.  In  those  weary  times  it 
is  that  we  call  out  to  her  even  as  we  do  to  God  ;  that  we  would 
bring  back  this  beautiful  vision  of  our  childhood,  that  we  would 
woo  her  from  the  shadowy  past ;  that  we  confess  to  her  how  weary 
we  are  of  "sowing  that  others  may  reap,"  of  "flinging  away  our 
soul's  wealth,"  and  ask  her  to  take  us  back  to  her  breast  and  make 
us  all  young  and  loving  and  innocent  again. 

Senator  BOGY  never  forgot  his  mother.  He  kept  his  promise  to 
her;  he  realized  the  pledge  of  his  boyhood,  and  laid  at  her  feet  his 
commission  as  United  States  Senator.  To  him  maternal  love  was 
a  steady  lamp  that  shone  all  through  his  life  and  was  a  guide  to  his 
footsteps.  To  him  it  was  a  hallowed  memory  that  kept  his  heart 
ever  fresh,  warm,  and  pure.  His  devotion  to  his  child  has  already 
been  spoken  of.  It  is  said  by  those  who  knew  him  well  that  the 
first  sign  of  his  decay  in  himself  occurred  after  the  death  of  his 


76  ADDEESS   OF   MR.    ELLIS    OX   THE 

beloved  daughter.  Like  a  careful  gardener  who  has  seen  some 
beautiful  plant  grow  up  beneath  his  care,  has  noted  its  petals  open 
and  unfold  into  beautiful  maturity,  and  when  it  dies  he  almost, 
wishes  to  die  with  it;  and  in  its  decay  takes  prophetic  premonition 
of  his  own  approaching  end ;  or  like  some  vine  that  has  clung  so 
closoly  about  the  trunk  of  the  oak  until  the  two  lives  are  absolutely 
intermingled  and  interwoven,  when  torn  rudely  and  violently  away 
it  leaves  its  parent-tree  a  prey  to  enemies  that  turn  its  strength  to 
decay  and  wither  all  its  glories.  So,  when  the  rude  hand  of  death 
tore  his  child  away  from  Senator  BOGY'S  heart,  it  sent  its  own  fatal 
chill  to  the  fountain  of  that  great  and  noble  life. 

As  a  legislator  Senator  BOGY  was  a  man  of  large,  liberal,  and 
enlightened  views.  Particularly  was  he  devoted  to  the  interests  of 
the  great  Mississippi  Valley.  Surely  never  did  the  heart  of  Israel's 
prophet  kindle  at  the  thought  of  that  Jordan-watered  land  which 
had  been  given  by  God  to  him  and  his  children,  as  a  heritage  to 
them  forever,  more  than  did  the  heart  of  Senator  BOGY  kindle  at 
the  splendid  possibilities  of  that  fertile  land  whoss  ribs  form  the 
water-sheds  of  continents,  whose  chief  life-vein  is  that  rushing 
inland  Mississippi  sea,  whose  blood  valves  are  lakes  with  voice  and 
expanse  like  oceans ;  whose  soil  is  the  breast  from  which  the  famished 
nations  of  the  world  can  gather  and  draw  sustenance.  It  was  to 
the  interests  of  this  valley,  to  the  splendid  possibilities  of  that  por 
tion  of  our  land  that  his  heart  ever  turned  with  delight.  Particu 
larly  do  I  remember  how  he  noted  carefully  the  progress  made  in 
the  improvements  at  the  mouth  of  the  great  river. 

I  well  recall  me  now  with  what  enthusiasm  he  talked  of  the  day 
when,  beneath  the  genius  of  Eads,  the  water  of  that  mighty  stream 
should  cut  the  last  shackle  that  binds  the  imperial  West  and  the 
majestic  South  to  the  car-wheels  of  insolent  monopoly,  and  free 


LIFE   AND   CHARACTER   OF   LEWIS    V.    BOGY.  77 

them;  when  the  great  brown- winged  and  black-breasted  birds  of 
commerce,  no  matter  how  heavily  laden,  might,  from  ocean's  rugged 
breast  to  river's  peaceful  bosom,  come  and  go,  and  furl  their  storm- 
bronzed  wings  by  the  wharves  of  the  great  cities  that  margin  the 
border  of  the  stream. 

How  vividly  also  do  I  recall  his  tireless  endeavor  for  the  develop 
ment  of  our  commercial  resources.  He  properly  divined  the  cause 
of  the  stagnation  of  business.  He  saw  with  true  and  just  eye  why 
it  was  that  furnace-fires  were  dying;  why  it  was  that  industry's 
strong  arm  was  falling  in  helpless  paralysis,  and  why,  in  this  land 
of  plenty,  there  was  a  cry  for  bread  and  labor.  He  knew  that  it 
was  the  overstimulated  productive  powers  of  the  country  and  the 
inadequate  commercial  circulation ;  and  he  knew  that  we  must  have 
a  market  for  our  surplus  products  or  that  stagnation  and  paralysis 
would  still  continue.  Therefore  he  was  very  urgent  in  his  advocacy 
of  a  line  of  steamers  to  Brazil ;  and  he  spoke  to  me  of  the  shame 
which  should  mantle  the  brow  of  every  American  that  the  American 
flag  was  almost  unknown  in  the  balmy  winds  of  those  tropic  seas 
and  that  the  commerce  of  that  rich  South  American  country  should 
be  gathered  by  people  who  live  so  far  away  that  the  sun  never  shines 
on  both  lands  at  once,  while  we,  basking  in  the  same  sun-bath  with 
those  South  American  states,  had  no  commerce  with  them  and  were 
almost  excluded  from  their  ports.  It  was  due  to  his  energy  and  his 
tireless  perseverance  that  that  measure  passed  the  Senate.  And 
though  that  measure  suffered  strangulation  in  the  close  grip  of  this 
economical  House,  yet  none  the  less  credit  is  due  to  the  tireless 
energy,  patience,  and  statesmanlike  foresight  of  Senator  BOGY  in 
urging  this  measure. 

Mr.  Speaker,  his  friends  do  not  claim  for  him  that  he  was  a  great 
orator,  yet  I  remember  that  once  when  assailed  in  the  Senate  of  the 


78  ADDEESS   OF   MR.    ELLIS  ON   THE 

United  States  he  spoke  with  energy,  with  truth,  with  earnestness, 
with  that  flash  of  eye  and  ring  of  voice  and  that  enthusiasm  of 
manner  which  then  lifted  him  almost  to  the  heights  of  sublime 
eloquence.  Nor  do  I  claim  for  him  that  he  was  one  of  those  Vul- 
cans,  the  sturdy  ring  of  whose  strokes  is  heard  adown  the  centuries, 
beating  out  great  thoughts  and  great  principles.  The  demands  of 
these  times  are  rather  for  the  earnest,  plodding  man  of  detail,  the 
industrious  man  of  detail  and  of  labor,  than  for  the  man  of  daz 
zling  genius.  It  is  harder  to  be  a  giant  than  it  was  in  the  days 
agone.  Owen  Meredith,  in  Lucille,  has  very  beautifully  and  truth 
fully  said: 

The  dwarf  on  the  dead  giant's  shoulders  sees  more 
Than  the  live  giant's  eye-sight  availed  to  explore. 

The  rapid  transit  of  news  and  intelligence,  the  easy  commingling 
of  remote  people,  the  teeming  printing-press,  the  thousands  of  books, 
and  the  easy  acquisition  of  knowledge  have  raised  the  masses.  The 
level  of  the  people  is  higher  and  it  is  more  difficult  for  your  giant 
to  appear  above  the  mass  than  in  former  days.  The  demand  of 
these  times,  as  I  have  said,  is  for  the  man  of  labor,  the  man  of  detail, 
the  man  of  care,  the  man  of  method,  the  man  close  enough  to  his 
people  to  see  their  wants  and  necessities  and  with  the  tireless  energy 
to  supply  those  wants  and  necessities.  Senator  BOGY  was  that  kind 
of  man;  and  if  he  filled  full  well  the  measure  of  his  life,  if  his 
strength  was  as  his  days  demanded,  then  what  prouder  tribute  could 
be  paid  to  the  greatest  man  in  the  annals  of  the  race? 

The  gifted  and  tender  Dickens,  above  the  grave  of  a  young  and 
lovely  being,  whose  life  was  all  a  God-written  poem,  has  said : 

When  death  strikes  down  the  innocent  and  young,  for  every  fragile  form  from 
which  he  sets  the  panting  spirit  free,  a  thousand  virtues  rise  in  shapes  of  mercy, 
love,  and  truth  to  walk  the  earth  and  bless  it.  Of  every  tear  that  surviving  mortals 
shed  o'er  such  green  graves  some  good  is  born,  some  guileless  nature  comes.  In  the 
destroyer's  pathway  there  spring  up  bright  creatures  that  defy  his  power,  and  his 
dark  pathway  becomes  a  way  of  light  to  heaven. 


LIFE   AND   CHARACTER   OF   LEWIS   V.    BOGY.  79 

The  thought  is  a  very  beautiful  one ;  and  if  we  may  extend  the 
spirit  of  the  thought,  then,  indeed,  will  not  from  this  grave  of  Sena 
tor  BOGY  arise  splendid  forms  of  integrity,  impulses  of  honesty  and 
of  truth,  of  nobility  of  character  that  shall  be  felt  by  the  generations 
that  are  to  follow?  Though  dead,  will  he  not  speak  to  the  people 
who  are  to  come  after  him? 

There  is  one  sweet  thought  for  his  friends.  About  his  grave  may 
gather  with  unfeigned  regret  (every  bitterness  vanished,  every  par 
tisan  feeling  gone)  men  of  every  race,  men  of  every  shade  of  political 
opinion,  men  of  all  political  parties.  Mr.  Speaker,  if  he  gave  hard 
blows  they  were  always  in  defense  of  the  Constitution  of  his  coun 
try  or  of  the  weak  and  the  oppressed.  No  plundered  commonwealth 
stands  above  his  grave  to-day  with  burning  memories  and  with 
bitter  tears  feeling  how  great  the  burden  of  that  charity  which  bids 
them  be  silent  and  forbids  the  impulse  to  crown  his  grave  with  the 
immortelles  of  abiding  hate.  No,  no ;  above  Senator  BOGY'S  grave 
there  lives  no  bitter  thought  or  memory. 

Mr.  Speaker,  let  us  endeavor  to  emulate  his  virtue ;  let  us  endeavor 
to  so  live  that  we  may  hear  the  call  of  the  Great  Reaper  even  as  he 
heard  it,  calling  us  away  to  the  spirit  land,  and  that  we  may  go  as 
he  did,  "not  like  the  quarry  slave,  scourged  to  his  dungeon/'  but 
rather — 

Like  one  that  wraps  the  drapery  of  his  couch 
About  him,  and  lies  down  to  pleasant  dreams. 


80  ADDRESS   OP   MR.    REA   ON   THE 


Address  of  Mr.  REA,  of  Missouri. 

Mr.  SPEAKER:  The  services  of  this  hour  furnish  material  for 
solemn  reflection. 

The  nation's  Representatives  in  this  Hall  to-day  render  just 
tribute  to  the  memory  of  LEWIS  VITAL  BOGY,  late  a  Senator 
from  the  State  of  Missouri. 

He  died  at  his  residence  in  the  city  of  Saint  Louis  on  the  20th 
day  of  September,  1877,  in  the  sixty-fifth  year  of  his  age. 

He  was  born  on  the  9th  day  of  April,  1813,  in  Sainte  Genevievc, 
now  Sainte  Genevieve  County,  in  the  State  of  Missouri,  and  was 
of  French  descent.  His  opportunities  in  early  life  for  the  acqui 
sition  of  an  education  were  meager,  but  he  industriously  availed 
himself  of  such  means  of  education  as  the  schools  in  that  new  coun 
try  afforded. 

He  read  law  in  the  office  of  the  late  Nathaniel  Pope,  judge  of  the 
United  States  district  court,  and  afterward  became  a  student  in  the 
law  school  at  Lexington,  Kentucky,  where  he  graduated  in  1835. 
Soon  after  he  had  graduated,  he  opened  an  office  in  Saint  Louis  and 
entered  upon  the  practice  of  law  with  success. 

He  held  a  number  of  positions  of  honor  and  trust  in  his  city  and 
State,  and  also  under  the  Federal  Government  prior  to  his  election 
to  the  Senate  of  the  United  States  in  1873,  all  of  which  he  filled 
with  honor  to  himself  and  his  country.  It  is  said  of  him  that  more 
than  forty  years  before  he  was  elected  Senator  he  formed  the  deter 
mination  to  qualify  himself  for  the  Senate  and  to  work  for  that  end 
until  he  arrived  at  the  age  of  sixty  years  if  necessary  to  obtain  the 
coveted  position.  This  was  a  laudable  and  honorable  ambition,  and 
amidst  all  the  vicissitudes  and  uncertainties  of  this  life  he  lived  to 
gratify  that  ambition. 


LIFE   AND   CHARACTER   OF   LEWIS   V.    BOGY.  81 

Although  I  lived  in  the  same  State  with  the  deceased  for  about 
one-third  of  a  century  I  did  not  form  his  personal  acquaintance 
until  in  the  month  of  February,  1875,  when  I  met  him  in  this  city. 
During  the  Forty-fourth  Congress,  while  I  was  a  member  of  this 
House  and  he  a  member  of  the  Senate,  he  and  I  became  well  and 
intimately  acquainted.  I  often  during  that  time  visited  his  rooms, 
and  always  found  him  agreeable  and  courteous.  The  more  I  be 
came  acquainted  with  him  the  more  I  appreciated  his  qualities  of 
head  and  heart. 

I  believe  he  was  a  patriot  and  sincerely  desired  the  peace  and 
prosperity  of  the  people,  not  only  of  his  own  State,  but  of  the  whole 
Union.  He  took  a  deep  interest  in  public  questions  and  had  an 
opinion  upon  almost  every  question. 

In  my  judgment  he  was  conservative  in  his  political  views  and 
was  deeply  impressed  with  the  necessity  of  peace  and  a  full  resto 
ration  of  confidence  and  good- will  between  the  people  of  the  North 
and  South,  under  the  Constitution  and  laws,  and  believed  that 
pacific  measures  were  best  calculated  to  promote  the  desired  end. 

He  was  a  man  of  more  than  ordinary  ability,  with  strong  convic 
tions,  and  was  ever  quick  and  ready  to  defend  and  maintain  those 
convictions;  always  bold,  but  courteous  in  debate. 

Mr.  Speaker,  we  are  reminded  upon  this  occasion  of  the  uncer 
tainty  of  life  and  the  certainty  of  death;  of  the  truth  of  the  inspired 
words,  "  it  is  appointed  unto  men  once  to  die."  To  this  proposition 
the  minds  of  all  yield  a  willing  assent ;  there  is  no  dispute  as  to  its 
truth. 

The  graves  of  countless  millions  who  have  passed  beyond  the 
river  of  life  into  the  valley  of  death,  and  the  evidences  of  decay 
among  the  living,  of  those  laboring  under  disease  and  old  age,  all 
verify  the  universally  accepted  truth  that  all  men  must  die. 


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ADDRESS   OF    ME.    REA   ON    THE 


The  path  of  life  is  strewn  with  innumerable  dangers  all  along 
its  wending  way.  The  enemies  and  destroyers  of  human  life  arc 
countless,  and  are  concealed  in  secret  ambush  all  along  the  journey 
of  life  from  the  cradle  to  the  grave,  ever  ready  to  seize  upon  their 
victims. 

When  we  contemplate  the  innumerable  dangers  to  which  our 
lives  have  been  subjected  as  we  journeyed  along,  we  are  terror- 
stricken  and  wonder  that  we  are  still  living.  How  many  hair 
breadth  escapes  has  each  one  of  us  undergone !  Each  one  can  recall 
many  incidents  of  danger  to  his  life,  but  it  is  doubtless  true  that 
the  life  of  every  individual  has  been  exposed  to  an  innumerable 
number  of  dangers  that  were  and  are  unknown.  We  are  ready 
to  exclaim  that  in  the  midst  of  life  we  are  in  death.  Death  and 
decay  are  all  around  us. 

The  living  should  contemplate  the  shortness  of  human  life. 
When  they  do  so  they  will  be  admonished  that  there  is  no  time 
to  be  wasted  in  idleness  or  in  doing  that  which  is  worse.  Com 
pare  the  duration  of  the  life  of  man  with  the  duration  of  time  as 
known  to  the  human  mind  by  and  through  the  agencies  of 
history  and  science,  and  how  infinitesimal  it  becomes.  In  an 
effort  to  compare  the  duration  of  human  life  with  the  bound 
less  and  illimitable  eternity,  the  human  mind  is  lost  in  incompre 
hensibility. 

Oh,  how  little  time  there  is  for  man  to  work.  How  short  the 
time  in  this  life  for  the  growth  of  the  human  mind  and  the  acqui 
sition  of  knowledge  and  wisdom.  How  short  the  time  for  doing 
good.  There  is  no  time  for  doing  evil  without  irreparable  loss. 
These  is  no  time  for  idleness  and  inattention.  We  are  admonished 
to  "  work  while  it  is  day,  for  the  night  cometh  when  no  man  can 
work."  In  the  terse  language  of  Prentiss: 


LIFE    AND    CHARACTER   OF    LEWIS    V.    BOGY.  83 


There  is  no  appeal  for  relief  from  the  great  law  which  dooms  us  to  the  dust ;  we 
flourish  and  fade  as  the  leaves  of  the  forest,  and  the  leaves  that  bloom  and  wither 
in  a  day  have  no  frailer  hold  upon  life  than  the  mightiest  monarch  that  ever  shook 
the  earth  with  his  footsteps.  Generations  of  men  will  appear  and  disappear  as  the 
grass,  and  the  multitude  that  throngs  the  world  to-day  will  disappear  as  the  foot 
steps  on  the  shore.  Men  seldom  tliink  of  the  great  event  of  death  until  the  shadows 
fall  across  their  own  pathway,  hiding  from  their  eyes  the  faces  of  loved  ones  whose 
loving  smile  was  the  sunlight  of  their  existence.  Death  is  the  antagonist  of  life, 
and  the  cold  thought  of  the  tomb  is  the  skeleton  of  all  feasts.  We  do  not  want  to  go 
through  the  dark  valley,  although  its  dark  passage  may  lead  to  paradise ;  we  do  not 
want  to  lie  down  in  the  damp  grave,  even  with  princes  as  bed-fellows. 

In  the  beautiful  language  of  the  poet: 

Our  lives  are  rivers,  gliding  free 
To  that  unfathomed,  boundless  sea, 

The  silent  grave. 

Thither  all  earthly  pomp  and  boast 
Roll,  to  be  swallowed  up  and  lost 

In  one  dark  wave. 

Mr.  Speaker,  LEWIS  VITAL  BOGY  is  dead.  His  voice  will  be 
heard  no  more  in  the  other  end  of  this  Capitol,  neither  will  his 
voice  again  be  heard  in  the  social  circle,  nor  in  the  place  most  sacred 
to  all  the  good,  the  family  circle.  His  lips  are  sealed  in  death.  His 
body  sleeps  in  Calvary  Cemetery,  in  the  suburbs  of  the  city  of 
Saint  Louis.  The  people  of  my  beloved  State  mourn  his  loss. 
Peace  be  to  his  spirit. 


Address  of  Mr.  CRITTENDEN,  of  Missouri. 

Mr.  SPEAKER:  Death  has  invaded  the  Senate  of  the  United 
States  in  two  notable  instances  since  the  last  Congress  adjourned. 
Indiana  and  Missouri  have  deeply  felt  the  intrusion,  and  in  their 
common  sorrow  have  been  drawn  together  as  loving  mothers  to 
mourn  the  death  of  their  honored  Senators.  Death  is  a  common 
leveler  of  all.  It  enters  the  palace  of  the  rich  and  the  hovel  of  the 


84  ADDRESS   OF   ME.    CRITTENDEN   ON   THE 

poor  with  the  same  indifferent  step  and  the  loved  ones  of  such  fade 
away  under  its  touch  into  the  dust  of  the  valley.  Senators  and 
statesmen  upon  whose  words  millions  have  hung  with  eager  ears  in 
their  fierce  forensic  combats  for  fame,  for  policies,  and  power,  are 
as  unable  to  resist  its  mandates  as  the  babe  that  sleeps  in  its  weak 
ness  upon  its  mother's  bosom.  It  is  the  most  successful  conqueror 
of  all.  It  awaits  the  triumph  of  earth's  greatest  leaders  until  the 
applause  of  mankind  has  made  its  hero  drunken  with  praise,  and 
then  by  its  touch  it  scatters  the  weak  ones  and  makes  the  great  and 
the  strong  waste  away  as  the  morning  dew.  No  mortal  was  nor 
will  ever  be  beyond  its  reach.  As  the  first  man,  so  must  the  last 
be  obedient  to  its  jurisdiction.  AVhenever  it  appears  in  this  Hall 
or  elsewhere,  how  deeply  hushed  is  the  voice  of  anger,  how  still  is 
the  pen  of  censure! 

This  is  a  beautiful  trait  in  human  nature.  All  are  willing  that 
the  evils  done  in  this  life  shall  be  buried  in  the  grave  of  the  dece 
dent,  and  his  virtues  only  be  left  to  bloom  and  blossom  over  the 
paths  of  the  living.  These  two  Senators  had  their  faults  like  man 
kind  in  general,  were  full  of  the  frailties  of  human  nature,  yet 
they  each  possessed  many  eminent  virtues.  In  battle  they  were  the 
fiercest  warriors ;  in  moments  of  truce  they  were  as  calm  and  gentle 
toward  each  other  as  men  of  force  and  gallantry  always  are.  They 
stood  as  resolute  and  uncompromising  leaders  in  the  Senate  only  a 
few  months  ago,  contending  like  giants  for  the  great  stake  of  the 
Presidency,  giving  and  receiving  blows  that  shook  our  country  from 
verge  to  center,  and  almost  caused— 

Red  battle  to  stamp  her  foot  and  nations  feel  the  shock, 

each  in  all  probability  incurring  the  fatal  disease  in  the  struggle. 
And  yet,  when  the  controversy  was  over  and  the  victory  won,  in 
the  contest  of  words  and  law  rather  than  in  blood  and  pain,  both 


LIFE   AND   CHARACTER   OF   LEWIS   V.    BOGY.  85 

retired  from  the  scene,  that  grand  gaudia  certaminis,  wearied  and 
worn,  never  to  return  again.  They  were  friends  when  in  the  Sen 
ate,  and  greater  friends  upon  their  death-beds.  The  one  was  con 
fined  during  his  last  illness  at  Richmond,  Indiana,  and  the  other  at 
Saint  Louis,  Missouri.  Each  was  daily  inquisitive  about  the  con 
dition  of  the  other,  and  as  each  grew  worse  words  of  comfort  and 
confidence  passed  by  mail  and  by  wire  from  one  to  the  other.  Gov 
ernor  MORTON'S  last  telegram  to  Senator  BOGY  was  received  a  few 
moments  after  the  latter  had  died,  and  when  so  advised,  he  was 
deeply  aifected  and  murmured  a  short  prayer  for  his  peaceful  rest. 
Missouri,  in  the  presence  of  her  dead  Senator,  tenders  to  Indiana 
her  words  of  grief  and  sorrow,  and  here  renews  the  hope  that  the 
elevated  friendship  that  existed  between  their  Senators  in  life,  and 
so  beautifully  closed  with  their  deaths,  should  be  but  the  commence 
ment  of  a  broader  and  deeper  friendship  between  the  peoples  of 
these  two  great  Western  States,  so  grandly  situated  for  agricultural 
and  commercial  purposes,  and  which  are  already  bound  together  by 
so  many  ties  of  blood,  interest,  and  commerce. 

Governor  MORTON  was  the  extraordinary  man  of  this  age.  He 
never  followed  in  anything ;  always  led  with  surpassing  ability  and 
boldness.  His  great  State  will  rally  around  his  name  as  Kentucky 
does  around  that  of  Mr.  Clay.  When  in  battle  of  words,  he  hit 
hard  licks,  as  such  battles  with  him  meant  war  and  war  meant 
blood.  In  the  social  circle  he  was  as  kind  and  gentle  as  a  woman, 
always  pleasing,  never  provoking.  Although  directing  millions  of 
money  he  never  polluted  his  fingers  with  one  dollar  that  did  not 
belong  to  him.  He  had  great  faults,  he  had  great  virtues.  Peace 
to  OLIVER  P.  MORTON  ! 

Indiana  and  Missouri  are  two  great  factors  in  national  supremacy, 
located  as  they  are  in  the  center  of  an  immense  empire.  As  the 


86  ADDRESS   OF   MR.   CRITTENDEN   ON  THE 

streams  of  each  mingle  together  at  last  in  one  grand  river  and  are 
forever  lost  in  that  one,  diversified  although  they  may  once  have 
been  in  their  native  States,  so  may  our  struggles,  our  hopes,  our 
interests,  at  last  be  centered  in  our  national  greatness,  and  all  be 
richly  consummated  in  a  "Union,  one  and  inseparable,  now  and 
forever."  Castellar,  that  man  of  genius  and  humanity,  said  in  a 
letter  of  condolence  to  Madame  Thiers,  after  the  death  of  her  world- 
renowned  husband : 

France  loses  her  first  statesman,  liberty  her  most  prudent  defender,  the  republic 
its  recognized  leader,  Europe  a  glorious  name  which  holds  a  foremost  title  on  the 
continent,  humanity  one  of  its  lights  which  by  their  brightness  paled  the  stars  of 
heaven,  less  luminous  than  great  souls. 

This  is  the  language  of  human  apotheosis  unfitted  to  our  age,  our 
people,  our  country.  Yet  to-day,  over  the  freshly-made  graves  of 
the  deceased  Senators,  there  are  followers  of  each  who  are  willing: 

*  O 

to  reiterate  the  same  language  about  their  deceased  leaders.  It  may 
be  the  sentimentalism  of  love,  to  a  certain  extent,  from  bruised 
hearts  and  lacerated  feelings  poured  forth  in  words  of  praise  in  their 
moments  of  sorrow.  Yet  it  is  not  manly  to  condemn  such  admira 
tion,  as  it  is  the  noblest  sentiment  of  human  nature  that  survives 
the  fall.  It  is  natural  to  love  our  dead,  whether  our  own  blood, 
our  kindred,  or  our  leaders.  Men  differed  as  to  the  honesty,  saga 
city,  and  ability  of  each  of  those  Senators,  and  in  moments  of  ex 
citement  severely  criticised  their  public  and  private  acts;  but  as 
they  have  been  gathered  to  their  reward,  where  mistakes  are  never 
made,  judgments  never  reversed,  we  should  bid  them  live  forever 
unvexed  and  unwearied  by  the  song  of  praise  or  the  criminations 
of  language.  They  are  beyond  the  reach  of  either. 

Can  storied  urn  or  animated  bust, 
Back  to  its  mansion  call  the  fleeting  breath? 

Can  honor's  voice  provoke  the  silent  dust, 
Or  flattery  soothe  the  dull,  cold  ear  of  death? 


LIFE   AND   CHARACTER   OF   LEWIS  V.    BOGY.  87 

The  praises  of  the  dead  never  fret  the  living.  So  with  each  no 
words  of  contention  will  be  provoked.  The  verge  of  the  grave 
should  ever  be  the  limit  of  severe  criticism.  When  God's  voice  is 
heard  man's  should  be  stilled. 

Senator  BOGY  died  at  his  residence  in  Saint  Louis  on  the  20th 
day  of  September,  1877,  in  full  possession  of  his  mental  faculties, 
surrounded  by  his  family,  his  friends,  and  his  church,  that  great 
ministering  angel  which  stands  to-day  and  has  for  eighteen  centu 
ries  stood  at  the  bedside  of  the  living  and  the  dying  on  every  con 
tinent,  under  every  sun,  ever  pointing  in  solemn  majesty  to  Him 
who  is  the  resurrection  and  the  life.  Senator  BOGY  was  well  known 
in  Missouri,  was  greatly  respected  in  every  part  of  it.  He  was  born 
in  Sainte  Genevieve,  Missouri,  on  the  9th  day  of  April,  1813,  in 
the  midst  of  the  most  cultivated  part  of  the  then  Territory  of  Mis 
souri.  His  advantages  for  education  at  that  early  day,  in  that 
sparsely-settled  part  of  the  country  were  limited.  He  availed 
himself  of  the  best  school  within  his  reach  and  means,  a  Catholic 
school  at  Perryville,  Missouri,  and  soon  by  his  energy  and  ability 
became  one  of  the  best  scholars  in  that  unpretentious  school.  At 
the  age  of  fourteen  he  became  a  victim  to  white-swelling  in  his 
right  leg,  which  so  completely  prostrated  him  for  eighteen  months 
that  he  was  unable  to  leave  his  bed. 

It  was  during  those  long,  painful  months  that  he  filled  his  mind 
with  those  rich  stores  of  history,  legend,  and  song  which  ever  after 
ward  made  him  the  autocrat  in  the  social  circle,  at  the  bar,  in  the 
forum,  in  the  Senate.  His  attending  physician  during  his  illness 
was  Dr.  Lewis  F.  Linn,  an  accomplished  gentleman  and  surgeon, 
who  afterward  became  United  Stales  Senator  from  Missouri.  Dr. 
Linn,  discovering  in  his  suffering  patient  a  boy  of  rare  promise,  of 
strong  mind,  of  graceful  manners,  of  sweet  voice,  of  genial  disposi- 


ADDRESS   OF   MR.    CRITTENDEN   ON   THE 


tion,  of  ambitious  hopes,  at  once  advised  him  to  study  law.  He 
consulted  his  parents  about  the  important  step,  and  they,  acquiesc 
ing  in  the  proposition,  sent  him  with  an  old  family  friend,  William 
Shannon,  to  Kaskaskia,  Illinois,  to  pursue  the  study  with  Nathaniel 
Pope,  then  judge  of  the  United  States  district  court  and  possessing 
the  best  law  and  miscellaneous  library  in  that  section  of  the  country. 
Young  BOGY,  without  undue  pride,  properly  measuring  his  own 
inherent  powers  and  feeling  the  deep  impulses  of  his  own  aspira 
tions  to  make  a  man  worthy  of  the  hopes  of  his  parents  and  friends, 
wrote  and  sent  to  his  mother  the  following  letter,  so  significant,  so 
plain,  so  worthy  of  imitation  by  the  young  men  of  our  land  : 

STE.  GENEVIEVE,  January  16, 1832. 

On  this  day  I  left  home  under  charge  of  Mr.  William  Shannon,  an  old  friend  of 
my  father,  to  go  to  Kaskaskia  to  read  law  in  the  office  of  Judge  Pope.  My  education 
is  limited,  but  with  hard  study  I  may  overcome  it.  I  am  determined  to  try ;  and 
my  intention  is  to  return  to  my  native  State  to  practice  law  if  I  can  qualify  myself, 
and,  while  doing  so  to  work  to  become  United  States  Senator  for  my  native  Stale 
and  to  work  for  this  until  I  am  sixty  years  old.  I  will  pray  God  to  give  me  the  resolu 
tion  to  persevere  in  this  intention.  I  have  communicated  this  to  my  mother  and 
given  her  this  paper  to  keep,  so  help  me  God. 

LEWIS  V.  BOGY. 

This  is  but  another  instance  of  what  determination  and  applica 
tion  can  do.  No  boy,  in  this  or  any  age,  ever  determined  with  a 
bold  and  tireless  resolution  to  accomplish  any  fact,  reach  any  point, 
attain  any  position  in  life,  that  it  was  not  done.  The  resolution 
must  not  be  a  feeble  one,  the  licks  struck  must  not  be  feeble  ones, 
such  as  bend  pins  or  crush  straws,  but  must  be  that  faith  that  re 
moves  mountains,  the  resolution  that  surmounts  all  obstacles,  the 
blows  that  weld  great  pieces  of  iron  together,  the  will  that  says 
there  is  no  such  word  as  "  fail."  Who  but  a  mother,  sweet  blessed 
mother,  would  have  preserved  for  so  many  long  years  that  little 
parcel  of  paper,  written  in  a  boyish  hand,  inspired  by  a  boyish 
dream,  so  worthless  then,  so  valuable  after  its  fulfillment  ?  Others 
would  have  thrown  it  aside  as  the  dreamings  of  a  visionary  boy, 


LIFE  AND  CHARACTER  OF  LEWIS  V.   BOGY.  89 

but  that  mother  laid  it  away,  embalmed  in  her  sacred  tears,  with  a 
mother's  prayers,  with  a  mother's  hopes.  How  often  are  a  mother's 
hopes,  a  mother's  tears  the  premonition  "of  coming  events." 

Mrs.  Bogy  died  before  the  son  commenced  his  upward  career,  be 
fore  he  became  "United  States  Senator  for  his  native  State."  No 
man  ever  had  truer,  bolder,  wiser  friends  anywhere  than  Senator 
BOGY  had  in  Southeast  Missouri,  and  those  people  never  had  a  truer, 
nobler,  wiser  defender  than  Senator  BOGY.  Such  friendship,  such 
fidelity  is  worthy  of  the  people,  is  worthy  of  their  leader.  They  made 
the  boy  a  Senator  and  he  made  himself  an  eloquent  defender  of 
them.  People  as  well  as  occasions  make  some  men  great,  in  fact, 
create  men  for  great  purposes.  The  enthusiasm  of  the  French  made 
Napoleon  great,  and  he  in  return  made  France  great  by  reason  of 
that  enthusiasm.  If  Senator  BOGY  was  not  possessed  of  a  national 
reputation  when  elected  Senator  from  his  native  State,  he  was 
familiarly  known  all  over  the  State,  he  had  served  in  the  Legisla 
ture  of  Missouri,  and  was  the  equal  and  peer  of  such  men  as  Blair, 
Rollins,  Doniphan,  and  Hall,  as  brave,  eloquent,  and  able  men  as 
ever  graced  the  forum  of  any  State. 

Early  imbibing  whig  doctrines -from  such  leaders  as  Clay,  Web 
ster,  Clayton,  and  Ewing,  he  was  ever  ready  to  defend  all  legitimate 
schemes  of  internal  and  foreign  commerce,  and  to  him  we  in  Missouri 
owe  much  gratitude  for  the  advanced  position  of  our  railroad  and 
manufacturing  systems,  for  he  believed,  as  far  back  as  1832,  that 
"  Missouri  was  destined  to  become  the  leading  Commonwealth  of  the 
Union."  He  had  great  and  abiding  faith  in  Missouri,  her  external 
and  internal  wealth,  her  immense  capacities  and  possibilities,  and 
had  not  the  evils  of  unwise  financial  legislation  rested  so  heavily 
upon  her  his  brightest  anticipations  would  have  been  realized  in  his 
lifetime.  He  loved  his  native  State  with  childish  idolatry,  and 


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would  resent  any  reflection  upon  its  capacity  or  honor,  its  intelligence 
and  its  morality.  When  a  law  student  at  Lexington,  Kentucky,  in 
1834,  a  New  England  minister  who  had  been  traveling  through  Indi 
ana,  Illinois,  and  Missouri  delivered  a  lecture  on  the  "Far  West"  at 
Lexington,  and  spoke  disparagingly  of  Saint  Louis,  "its  commerce 
and  business,"  of  its  religion  and  morality,  of  the  abandoned  character 
of  the  Jews,  French,  and  Catholic  church.  Mr.  BOGY,  then  only 
about  twenty  years  old,  was  in  the  audience,  which  was  large  and 
intelligent.  He  listened  to  the  lecturer  with  some  patience  until  he 
animadverted  upon  the  women  of  his  State  with  unbecoming  severity, 
which  so  aroused  the  fiery  zeal  of  his  nature  that  he  jumped  from  his 
seat  and  in  a  loud  voice  exclaimed,  "  Now,  stop,  sir !  I  pronounce 
what  you  say  about  Saint  Louis  and  its  people  an  absolute  falsehood." 

There  was  great  consternation.  The  minister  was  staggered.  He  paused  some 
time  and  then  expressed  a  hope  that  he  would  not  meet  again  with  such  a  rude 
and  unwonted  interruption.  Mr.  BOGY'S  friends  tried  to  quiet  him,  but  be  got  up 
again  and  said,  "As  long  as  you  only  slandered  men  I  could  stand  it,  but  when  you 
speak  of  my  countrywomen  in  the  way  you  did  I  had  to  rebuke  you  and  shall  do  so 
again  if  you  dare  to  insult  them  again."  There  was  a  distinct  murmur  of  applause 
in  the  audience,  and  the  minister  brought  his  lecture  to  a  rather  premature  close. 

It  was  the  spirit  of  the  man  developed  in  the  boy  at  that  early  age. 
It  exhibited  itself  in  every  phase  of  his  life,  whether  in  the  school 
room,  at  the  bar,  in  the  Legislature,  or  in  the  Senate  of  the  United 
States.  No  clearer  sentences  ever  rang  out  upon  the  ear  of  the  Sen 
ate  than  when,  in  a  moment  of  great  national  excitement,  he  said : 

Sir,  the  names  of  Jeffreys  and  Norbury  have  come  down  to  us  in  English  history 
for  ages  past,  covered  with  disgrace  and  shame  because  they  were  corrupt  judges; 
and  the  name  of  that  man  who  changed  his  vote  upon  that  commission  so  as  to 
change  the  votes  of  Florida  from  Tilden  to  Hayes  [Justice  Bradley]  will  go  down  to 
after  ages  covered  with  equal  shame  and  disgrace.  His  name  will  be  associated 
with  Norbury  and  Jeffreys,  linked  together  by  a  chain  of  infamy,  and  never  will  it 
be  pronounced  without  a  hiss  from  all  good  men  in  this  country. 

As  to  the  policy  or  impolicy  of  the  utterance  I  have  nothing  to 
say  at  this  time.  I  only  use  it  as  an  illustration  of  his  boldness 
and  fearlessness  when  he  believed  a  great  wrong  was  being  done. 


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Senator  BOG-Y  was  a  man  of  enlarged  views;  nothing  small  or 
illiberal  about  him ;  never  looking  for  motes  or  blemishes  -in  the 
character  of  any  man,  never  questioning  the  character  of  any  one 
without  cause ;  never  making  unbecoming  remarks  about  ladies,  ever 
treating  them  with  knightly  courtesy  and  unsuspecting  confidence; 
as  gentle  and  kind  to  children  as  a  mother,  and  always  ready  to  view 
human  nature  with  a  half  closed  eye,  and  was  ever  more  ready  to 
defend  than  to  prosecute,  to  justify  than  to  vilify;  had  but  little 
patience  with  a  man  claiming  to  be  without  faults,  without  regrets, 
for  he  said  no  man  could  be  good  without  having  feelings  of  regret 
every  day  of  his  life  because  of  some  inconsiderate  expression,  some 
rash  act.  He  possessed  an  unusually  well  balanced  mind  and 
temper;  seldom  irritated  or  irritable,  always  bright  and  cheerful  at 
his  own  fireside  and  in  the  social  circle,  believing,  as  I  have  often 
heard  him  say,  that  life  was  too  short  for  a  man  to  make  himself  or 
others  miserable  by  harsh  remarks  and  vulgar  passions;  although  a 
warm  partisan,  ever  ready  to  defend  his  political  and  religious  creeds 
with  chivalrous  alacrity,  yet  his  urbanity  and  earnestness  were  so 
distinguished  as  to  secure  even  the  respect  of  his  opponents.  He 
had  few  enemies  anywhere,  many  friends  everywhere.  His  life  was 
full  of  sweetness  at  home  and  abroad,  ever  marking  him  as  a  prince 
and  a  gentleman,  a  patriot  and  a  Christian,  a  statesman  and  a 
Senator;  never,  even  in  the  last  days  of  his  life,  when  misfortunes 
gathered  fast  and  thick  around  him,  when  the  sharpened  pains  of 
the  fatal  disease  were  less  than  the  pangs  of  a  troubled  mind,  for 
getting  that  he  was  a  gentleman  and  a  Senator.  Such  a  man 
cannot  be  unmade,  cannot  be  broken  down. 

Not  all  the  water  In  the  rough  rude  sea 
Can  wash  the  balm  from  an  anointed  king. 

His  life  was  a  model  one,  worthy  of  severe  imitation  by  the  old 


92  ADDRESS   OF   MR.    ORITTENDEN   ON   THE 

as  well  as  the  young,  and  his  memory  should  long  be  treasured  in 
our  own  great  State.  His  life  may  not  have  been  as  resplendent 
with  some  one  marked  deed,  some  one  noted  charity,  some  one  bril 
liant  speech  as  often  gave  great  reputation  to  some  men ;  but  it  was 
filled  all  the  way  from  manhood  to  the  grave  with  thousands  of 
noble  deeds,  thousands  of  heaven-recognized  charities,  and  countless 
speeches  of  the  sweetest  purity  and  happiest  results.  He  has  left 
his  impress  on  society,  that  will  long  survive  him  and  be  a  rich 
heritage  to  his  children. 

Mr.  Speaker,  noble  deeds  will  be  reported,  distinguished  services 
will  be  remembered,  the  works  of  good  men  follow  them.  Some 
one  has  uttered  the  golden  thought  that — 

The  planet,  the  pebble,  goes  attended  by  its  shadow.  The  rolling  rock  leaves  its 
track  upon  the  mountain,  the  river  its  channel  in  the  soil,  the  animal  its  bones  in 
the  stratum,  the  fern  and  the  leaf  its  modest  epitaph  in  the  coal.  The  falling  drop 
makes  its  scpulcher  in  the  sand  or  stone ;  not  a  foot  steps  in  the  snow  or  along  the 
ground  but  prints  in  characters  more  or  less  lasting  a  map  of  its  march,  and  every 
act  of  the  man  inscribes  itself  in  the  memories  of  its  fellows.  The  air  is  full  of 
sounds,  the  sky  of  tokens,  the  ground  is  all  memoranda  and  signatures,  and  every 
object  is  covered  over  with  hints  which  speak  to  the  intelligent. 

Senator  BOGY  as  a  Senator  never  forgot  that  he  was  once  an 
unknown  school-teacher  in  the  mountains  of  Kentucky;  and  the 
lessons  he  then  learned  made  him  in  after-life,  when  the  applause 
of  listening  Senators  honored  his  career,  considerate  of  and  kind  to 
young  men  struggling  against  the  decrees  of  adversity.  He  never 
forgot  that  he  was  once  poor,  once  unknown,  once  "  without  a  local 
habitation  or  a  name."  Vulgar  minds,  vulgar  natures,  only  do. 
Beshal  Hall  once  said : 

Sweet  the  destiny  of  all  trades,  whether  of  the  plow  or  the  mind.  Men  who  have 
raised  themselves  from  a  humble  calling  need  not  be  ashamed,  but  rather  ought  to 
be  proud,  because  of  the  difficulties  they  have  surmounted.  The  laborer  on  his  feet 
stands  higher  than  the  king  on  his  knees. 

Senator  BOGY  understood  and  appreciated  such  a  sentiment.    He 


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was  eminently  a  self-made  man ;  and  such  are  the  practical  men  of 
life.  They  have  trodden  the  upward  paths  of  life  by  the  light  of 
daily  experience.  No  other  cloud  by  day  or  pillar  of  fire  by  night 
as  their  guide.  Missouri  has  had  and  still  has  many  men  of  supe 
rior  ability  to  Senator  BOGY,  of  greater  brilliance ;  men  capable  of 
greater  thoughts,  of  greater  conceptions,  of  closer  reasoning  powers, 
of  more  logical  acumen;  men  more  dashing,  who  would  secure  the 
outer  works  of  an  opponent  before  Senator  BOGY  would  move  his 
forces;  but  when  all  the  qualities  are  measured  that  enter  into  the 
man,  that  form  the  man,  those  enduring  elements  which  take  a 
soldier  to  the  inner  works,  with  head  erect  and  arm  unstrung,  then 
few  indeed  are  found  who  surpassed  him. 

He  could  always  be  relied  on,  as  a  man,  as  a  lawyer,  as  a  poli 
tician,  as  a  statesman.  The  mind  alone  does  not  make  the  man;  if 
so,  Bacon;  whom  the  poet  described  as  the  wisest,  meanest,  basest  of 
mankind,  was  a  great  man,  in  the  full  acceptation  of  that  term,  for 
his  great  mental  powers  were  overshadowed  by  his  great  immoral 
qualities.  A  great  man  is  not  only  great  in  his  thoughts,  but  in  all 
he  does,  in  all  his  deeds,  in  all  his  actions,  his  mind  being  ever  free 
from  small  conceptions  and  smaller  executions,  always  seeking  the 
elevation  of  society,  of  the  state,  of  the  country.  Measured  by  this 
rule,  Senator  BOGY  was  no  common  man,  and  the  longer  we  are 
removed  from  him  the  greater  will  be  our  appreciation  of  that  fact. 
At  the  time  of  his  death  Senator  BOGY  was  rapidly  assuming  an 
elevated  position  in  the  Senate.  The  slow  hand  of  Time  and  Justice 
was  removing  without  leaving  a  blemish  or  a  stain  the  evil  surmises 
that  his  enemies  had  scattered  broadcast  over  the  country.  At  the 
time  he  entered  the  Senate  and  to-day  there  is  no  man  of  repute 
who  will  say  aught  against  the  public  or  private  character  of  LEWIS 
V.  BOGY.  His  honesty  and  veracity  stand  as  impervious  to  slan- 


94  ADDRESS   OF   MR.    CRITTENDEN   ON   THE 

derous  attacks  to-day  as  his  own  cherished  Iron  Mountain  stands 
unshaken  by  the  morning  breeze  or  the  evening  zephyr. 

The  cemeteries  of  Saint  Louis  contain  many  illustrious  dead: 
Benton,  the  great  Senator,  Geyer,  Bates,  Paschall,  Blair,  Polk, 
Green,  and  BOGY,  all  sleep  that  long  sleep  in  almost  adjacent  graves. 
Few  graveyards  contain  so  many  distinguished  dead.  They  were 
all  great  men,  "  immortal  names  that  were  not  born  to  die."  They 
have  shed  a  halo  of  glory  over  the  State  of  Missouri,  and  it  is  per 
missible  for  us  from  that  State  to  bow  around  their  graves  with 
Christian  love.  Their  memories  are  our  idols,  our  household  gods, 
cherished  and  loved,  where  we  go  they  are  taken,  where  we  rest 
they  are  elevated.  Such  dead  are  an  honor  to  any  State,  to  any 
people.  Missouri  can  point  to  them  as  her  jewels  as  the  mother  of 
the  Gracchi  pointed  to  her  sons  as  hers.  May  the  brightest  flowers 
of  spring  bloom  perennially  over  their  graves.  "To-day,"  as  has 
been  beautifully  said,  "  they  are  with  the  shadows.  The  race  from 
which  they  sprung  will  never  come  again  to  this  world.  A  wiser 
one  may  succeed  to  it,  but  never  a  purer,  braver,  stronger,  and  more 
patriotic."  Great  men's  deeds  should  be  incentives  to  be  great  men. 
The  world  is  full  of  great  men  if  the  world  only  knew  it.  There 
is  always  a  great  leader  for  every  great  event,  a  Washington  for 
every  great  revolution,  a  Clay  for  every  great  compromise.  Great 
men  have  occupied  seats  in  this  House  and  the  Senate  and  have 
died,  and  men  equally  as  great  do  occupy  their  places,  and  the  legis 
lation  moves  on  as  of  yore.  It  is  well  for  us  to  mourn  over  our 
dead  statesmen  who  have  left  us  the  rich  heritage  of  liberty  to  pre 
serve  "safe  against  the  tooth  of  time  and  razure  of  oblivion,"  and 
to  perpetuate  their  memories  in  stainless  marble  and  burnished 
brass;  but  at  the  same  time  we  should  remember  that  they  had  their 
faults — deep,  broad,  glaring  faults — which  should  be  avoided  with 


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the  same  resolution  that  prompts  us  to  imitate  their  virtues.  Word 
paintings  do  not  make  the  dead  perfect  or  imperfect.  Their  acts 
and  thoughts  have  made  their  characters.  "  As  the  tree  falls  so  it 
must  lie."  These  occasions  should  teach  the  living  that  the  great 
lesson  of  life,  after  all,  is  so  to  live  in  this  world  that  when  we  are 
called  hence  "into  the  dark  valley,  with  its  weird  and  solemn 
shadows/'  we  go  with  an  unfaltering  step,  with  the  response,  adsum, 
glowing  upon  our  lips,  believing  that  death  is  but  the  beginning  of 
a  destiny  good  or  evil,  that  we  have  created  for  ourselves  in  the 
years  gone  by.  If  the  tree  is  corrupt  so  will  be  the  fruit  when  the 
bloom  is  gone ;  if  bright  and  beautiful,  so  will  be  the  production. 
Such  men  as  BOGY  and  Morton  arc  always  missed  when  they 
die,  always  create  a  vacancy  when  they  fall,  as  does  the  strong  oak 
when  removed  from  its  native  forest  by  the  hand  of  the  woodman. 
It  takes  time,  much  time  to  fill  the  place.  How  greatly  has  the 
Senate  changed  in  the  last  four  years.  To  study  that  change  makes 
the  hardest  of  us  exclaim,  "in  the  midst  of  life  we  are  in  death." 
How  sadly,  how  eloquently  Old  Time's  mutations  are  portrayed  in 
this  article,  taken  from  one  of  the  leading  newspapers  of  the  day : 

TIME'S    CHANGES    IK    THE    SENATE. 

[  From  the  Cincinnati  Enquirer.] 

After  an  interregnum  of  seventeen  years  the  Senate  is  now  full.  There  have 
been  great  changes  since  the  Senate  met  in  December,  1860.  The  Government  runs 
on  and  on,  while  the  grave  takes  the  governors.  To  the  man  familiar  with  the 
Senate  of  that  day,  the  changes  death  has  made  in  the  body  that  itself  never  dies 
have  a  melancholy  interest.  Of  those  who  were  then  Senators  but  two  are  Senators 
to-day :  Hannibal  Hamlin,  of  Maine,  and  Henry  B.  Anthony,  of  Rhode  Island.  Not 
withstanding  the  long  term  of  the  Senator  who  serves  for  six  years  and  the  ten 
dency  to  re-elect,  of  the  seventy-six  Senators  to-day  but  two  were  Senators  less  than 
three  times  six  years  ago.  Pitt  Fessendcn  was  in  the  Senate  then,  grim,  keen,  com 
manding,  but  misanthropic,  seeming  to  have  a  spite  against  mankind  because  of 
the  bitter  love-accident  to  his  birth  that  sprung  from  the  nature  of  mankind.  Fes- 
senden  is  dead.  John  P.  Hale  was  there,  brave,  eloquent,  witty,  able  to  state  his 
case  with  unsurpassed  force  and  clearness.  Hale  is  dead.  Henry  Wilson  was  there, 
politic,  tireless,  ambitious,  making  more  of  his  native  talents  than  almost  any  man 
in  our  history ;  and  Wilson  is  dead.  Sumner  was  there,  the  student  of  the  Senate, 
the  man  who  alone  in  the  Senate  was  able  to  summon  all  history  and  all  literature 


96  ADDRESS   OF   MR.    CRITTENDEN   ON   THE 


to  prove  his  point.  Massive  in  his  vanity,  isolated  in  his  tastes  and  life;  and  Sum- 
ner  is  dead.  William  Henry  Seward  was  there,  who  had  been  for  ten  years  the  idol 
of  a  great  following  and  was  the  statesman  of  his  party  in  1860.  Seward  is  dead. 
Stephen  A.  Douglas  was  there,  his  democracy  pure  and  simple,  and,  running  through 
the  warp  and  woof  of  his  nature,  his  loyalty  to  the  Union,  so  deep-seated  that  not  even 
disappointed  ambition,  always  a  destroyer  of  the  best  things  in  men,  could  shake  it. 
"  I  am  ready  to  act  with  any  party,  with  any  individual  of  any  party,  who  will  come 
to  this  question  with  an  eye  single  to  the  preservation  of  the  Constitution  and  the 
Union,"  said  Douglas,  in  those  trying  hours.  Douglas  is  dead.  Andrew  Johnson 
was  there,  his  voice  of  the  bravest;  and  Andrew  Johnson  is  gone.  George  E.  Pugh 
was  there,  fresh  from  the  laurels  of  Charleston,  that  shrill  tenor  tone  ringing  like  a 
silvery  bell  through  the  Senate  Chamber,  clinging  to  the  Union  and  to  peace  with 
tenacity,  but  to  his  belief  with  defiance.  And  that  brilliant  man  sleeps.  Jefferson 
Davis  was  there,  saying,  "  If  I  could  see  any  means  by  which  I  could  avert  the  catas 
trophe  of  a  struggle  between  the  sections  of  the  Union,  my  past  life,  I  hope,  gives 
evidence  of  the  readiness  with  which  I  would  make  the  effort.  If,  in  the  opinion  of 
others,  it  be  possible  for  me  to  do  anything  for  the  public  good,  the  last  moment 
while  I  stand  here  is  at  the  command  of  the  Senate.  I  will  serve  on  the  committee 
if  the  Senate  choose."  There  were  thirty-three  States  then.  There  were  other  shin 
ing  names  in  the  list  of  Senators.  There  were  names  less  lustrous  that  take  place  in 
our  history.  R.  M.  T.  Hunter,  Mason  of  Virginia,  Robert  Toombs,  John  J.  Critten- 
den,  Jesse  D.  Bright,  Ben.  Wade,  Lyman  Trumbull,  Yulee  of  Florida,  Wigfall  of 
Texas,  Benjamin  and  Slidell,  and  the  others,  were  then  Senators.  The  graves  have 
opened,  and  events  have  shifted  the  leaders.  Five  States  have  been  added  to  the 
Union  since  that  time;  ten  Senators  have  been  added  to  the  Senate  of  those  ante 
bellum  days.  The  Senate  never  dies,  but  how  cha.nged  it  is. 

Are  not  these  changes  enough  to  make  the  living  Senators  of 
to-day  wonder  when  death  will  make  its  next  conscription?  With 
these  illustrious  names  there  is  one  not  mentioned,  strange  as  it  may 
seem — John  0.  Breckinridge,  of  Kentucky,  who  was  every  inch  a 
man  and  a  Senator,  and  was  "  the  glass  of  fashion  and  the  mold  of 
form"  to  the  whole  country.  Who  that  has  read  his  valedictory 
address,  made  January  4,  1859,  upon  the  removal  of  the  Senate 
from  the  old  to  the  new  Hall,  can  or  will  ever  forget  its  lofty  ideas 
and  burning  words  ?  He,  too,  has  gone  to  his  rest,  and  sleeps  in 
the  great  bosom  of  Kentucky,  with  Clay  and  with  Crittenden, 
with  Rowan  and  with  Underwood  : 

Immortal  names, 
That  were  not  born  to  die. 

Whenever  the  living  cease  to  remember  their  dead,  a  death 
greater  than  the  mere  decay  of  the  human  body  will  sooner  or  later 


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erase  such  a  people  from  the  map  of  the  world.  History,  with  its 
great  iron  pen,  will,  in  few  words,  detail  their  rise,  fall,  and  decay. 
Our  forefathers  saw  this,  and  left  us,  as  one  of  their  legacies,  a 
reverence  for  the  worthy  dead.  Cicero  said  "  Vita  enim  mortuorum 
in  memoriam  vivorum  est  posita"  The  life  of  the  dead  is  placed 
in  the  memory  of  the  living;  in  other  words,  a  virtuous  people 
will  always  seek  to  perpetuate  the  memory  of  their  virtuous  dead. 
My  sad  task  is  over.  Senator  BOGY  has  closed  his  earthly  career, 
and  is  in  his  grave  awaiting  the  final  summons.  Calmly  he  slum 
bers  beneath  the  soil  of  his  native  State,  within  the  sound  of  the 
great  city  which  gave  him  a  home  and  a  grave,  and  which  with  its 
half  million  of  eager  population,  ever  stands,  night  and  day,  a 
vigilant  sentinel  over  the  tomb  of  its  honored  Senator.  Embowered 
in  the  peaceful  shade  of  his  own  beautiful  resting-place,  through 
whose  stricken  boughs  the  fierce  wintry  winds  are  now  chanting 
their  requiem,  the  Senator,  the  patriot,  the  father,  the  husband,  and 
friend  sleeps  that  sleep  that  knows  no  earthly  waking.  As  a 
Missourian  who  knew  and  loved  him  well,  I  say,  farewell,  a  long 
farewell,  to  as  kind  a  friend,  to  as  true  a  man,  to  as  noble  a  patriot 
as  ever  lived. 

Lay  him  down  gently  at  the  iron  door. 

Mr.  CRITTENDEN.     I  offer  the  following  resolution : 

Resolved,  That  as  a  further  mark  of  respect  to  the  memory  of  lion.  Liswis  V.  BOGY, 
late  a  Senator  of  the  United  States  from  the  State  of  Missouri,  this  House  do  now 
adjourn. 

The  resolution  was  unanimously  adopted;  and  accordingly  (at 
five  o'clock  and  fifteen  minutes  p.  m.)  the  House  adjourned. 


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